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TIL that the legal test used in the UK to determine whether something could cause sufficient public confusion to constitute an actionable trademark infringement is called the 'moron in a hurry' test.

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BgBRD TIL that Clark Gable served as the inspiration behind the name of Superman's alter-ego Clark Kent (Along with another actor, Kent Taylor)
b9a6Q TIL soccer was a popular and successful sport in the US up until the 1930s. However a series of disputes between rival leagues and FIFA (called the Soccer Wars) , and the onset of the Great Depression led to a massive decline in the popularity of the sport.
KObxR TIL the first alt-history novel about the Axis winning World War Two was published in 1937, two years before the war started
MWDA TIL English accounts for about 52% of the Internet
9Y8dX TIL The term "bug" to describe a runtime error was popularized when in 1947 engineers discovered their program on a Harvard University Mark II computer was not working because a moth was stuck in one of the relays. They taped the bug into their engineering log book, still preserved today.