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TIL in 2014 Budweiser attempted to trademark the sound of a beer can opening

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Me5LV TIL the Chinese city of Fancheng held out for nearly 6 years against the Mongols - until Kublai Khan's nephew sent him Muslim engineers from Iran that built counterweight trebuchets, with a range of 1,600 ft. and launching projectiles weighing 660 lbs. The city fell within a few days.
8e448 TIL about a Frenchman named Tarrare, who was a French showman, soldier and spy known for an unusually large appetite. He could eat live animals, quarter of a bullock in a day, he was suspected of eating a one year old toddler while in the hospital. Finally died of exudative diarrhea and tuberculosis
jNodR TIL a customer died of a heart attack while eating at the "Heart Attack Grill" in Las Vegas, which gives free meals to patrons weighing more than 350 lbs.
M7RoV TIL Saturn has 146 moons in its orbit. The moons range in size from larger than the planet Mercury to a sports arena
4jON TIL that the Powerpuff Girls were originally called the “Whoopass Girls” by their creator who did the pilot as a college project. The “secret ingredient” in their creation was accidentally spilling a can of Whoopass into the pot.