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TIL Tropicana OJ sales plunged 20% when they changed their logo.

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JnmV TIL “In 2013, Star Wars was translated into Navajo, making it the first major motion picture translated into any Native American language”
GBB4 TIL Salman Rushdie loves Super Mario World. He played the game religiously while he was in hiding, to the great annoyance of his wife.
6l78 TIL the community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual “Food for Fines” program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy
BQlk TIL that contrary to popular belief, King Mongkut of Siam’s proposed gift of elephants to Abraham Lincoln was not meant to be used to combat the Confederacy, but rather to create a feral pack of elephants in the US for future use.
WkKVX TIL the term "Genericide"- That if a Trademark begins being used as a generic term for other items of it's kind to the point where it becomes the more common term for the item than the items generic name, the Trademark can be removed. Escalators used to be a trademark but this happened with them.