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TIL Google wants to stop people using the term “Google” as a verb meaning to search something up with an internet search engine. They believe that due to brand recognition, Google will become a generic term, and hence cost them the legal right to a trademark.

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4kew TIL, the reason Make-A-Cake mix’s require you to always “add 1 egg” is because of the House Wives of America felt guilty about it being too easy to cook for their husbands.
4krR TIL that Socrates’ would walk, according to historians, with “ a swagger so intimidating that enemy soldiers kept their distance” and “barefoot and unwashed, carrying a stick and looking arrogant”
KYyy4 TIL about Hugh Thompson, an American helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He landed between unarmed Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers during the My Lai Massacre, ordering his crew to fire on the American troops if they shot the civilians, saving many lives.
pDYA TIL that Einstein was rewarded Nobel Prize not for his works with relativity, but for discovery of photoelectric effect.
kORMm TIL that Jimi Hendrix served in the army but got kicked out because they caught him masturbating on duty