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Today I learned that the word "webinar" is trademarked.

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b6mrE TIL that ducklings swim in a line behind their mother in order to reduce drag and propel themselves forwards
X6YQ TIL in 2005, a man received a penis transplant for the first time in history after his own was severed in an accident. Two weeks after the procedure took place, it had to be removed “because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife”
oRrg8 TIL under the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 a man was fined $100 for wishing the canon firing a salute would “hit [President John] Adams in the ass.”
l7WLK TIL of the Greek poet Aeschylus, who died after an eagle dropped a tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a rock on which to break the tortoise's shell.
6MPw TIL George Harrison purchased the rights to a song after being found guilty of plagiarism. This meant he had to pay zero damages.