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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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GwL1 TIL Cherophobia is the belief that when one becomes happy, something bad will soon occur after feeling happiness.
GLVQ TIL entrepreneur George F. Johnson pioneered 40 hour workweeks, paid industry-leading wages, sold homes to employees at a loss, built parks, pools, medical facilities, etc. and still turned a profit with his 10,000 employee company.
K47a TIL that, in 1504, Christopher Columbus scientifically predicted that a lunar eclipse would occur, and used that knowledge to scare the natives into giving him food by making them believe that he had magically made the moon disappear.
VE5Z TIL that a dog called Capitan has slept and rarely left his owners grave since he died 6 years ago. And no one never showed him the grave, he found it himself and refused to leave when close family tried to take him home
DQBlJ TIL that the first ship to have electric lightbulbs (made by Thomas Edison himself) was initially denied coverage by insurance companies because of the new technology of electricity and lightbulbs.