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TIL 7-Eleven owns the trademark to the word 'Brainfreeze'. The medical term is a cold-stimulus headache.

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VM44p TIL that the RMS Titanic was designed to carry 68 lifeboats (enough for everyone on board), and although she only had around half as many needed on her maiden voyage, it would have only costed $16k to add the remaining needed; a small fraction of the $7.5m it took to construct the ship.
8PGX TIL Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, has claimed that “aliens have contacted humans several times” on Kerrang radio in 2008
9wBrD TIL that Garry Kasparov, who was World Chess Champion for 15 years and broke the record for highest rating of all-time, took a formal IQ test in 1987 and scored 135.
OleL TIL environmental activist group Greenpeace once accidentally released a fact sheet which said “In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]”.
nkvB TIL that the British play “The Madness of George III” had its name changed to “The Madness of King George” when it went to the US. Producers added “King” because they thought Americans wouldn’t know who George III was and dropped “III” assuming Americans would think it was the 3rd movie in a series.