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TIL that Pixar had to ask for permission to use the Omnidroid name as Lucasfilm has a trademark on the word "droid".

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XjXk TIL when the Pope dies, it’s tradition to confirm the death ceremonially by gently tapping the pope’s head thrice with a silver hammer, calling his birth name each time.
yQJl8 TIL of Roy Sullivan; a man who was struck by lightning 7 times throughout his life and died at the age of 71 by a self inflicted gunshot wound (rumoured to be the cause of an unrequited love)
l7W7K TIL about the Miracle of 1511, a festival in Belgium in which peasants built hundreds of satirical snowmen, many of them nude, to protest class disparity.
0wQlM TIL Being forgetful makes you smarter. The primary function of memory is to improve decision making, so forgetting irrelevant details helps you to make more informed and relevant decisions.
eGdJ TIL that the term “Boycott” comes from Captain Charles Boycott, an Irish land agent who evicted farmers from their land during poor harvests. His entire town shunned him, leaving him without and goods, mail, etc. He was forced to leave the country later that year.