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TIL Luke Helder, who in 2002 planted pipe bombs in various places to draw a smiley face across America, is still being held indefinitely at a federal mental health facility after being declared incompetent to stand trial

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xV97w TIL that "a moron in a hurry" is a legal test for trademark infringement in which two trade marks are considered to be different enough from each other to coexist if only a moron in a hurry would confuse them. This test has been applied in cases in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada.
9YlE7 TIL that Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard. Harvard boasts a fancy 5.2 percent admittance rate, but it's beaten badly by Walmart's minute 2.6% of applicants being accepted.
pYaXZ TIL "Methinks the lady doth protest too much" is meant opposite to how it is used. It's not meant to doubt someone denying something, but rather someone proclaiming something. "Protest" (pruh-test) is a different word than (pro-test) that means to profess in favor. This is the origin of "Protestant"
XE7QE TIL: Finland has ten trees for every person in the world
yPNV TIL that gargoyles are used as waterspouts and grotesques are decorative.