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TIL Dreamt is the only word in English that ends in -mt

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oE5A TIL : Louis Vuitton sued dog toy company Haute Diggity Dog over their “Chewy Vuiton” chewy handbags. The court ruled in favour of the dog toy company.
xwy1 TIL that because of pronunciation errors the English language became what it is today; wasp used to be waps; bird used to be brid; empty used to be emty
AmPa TIL that when Tesla moved to Colorado to work on artificial lightning, thunder from one experiment was heard 15 miles away, people saw sparks jumping from their feet to the ground, butterflies were swirling in circles with blue halos around their wings and the whole town was left in the dark.
XDBk TIL Dole sued and threatened everybody they could to make sure the documentary Bananas!* would not be shown to the public.
QXGL TIL Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto, hosted a talk show on Canadian TV that was cancelled after one episode