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

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OW67 TIL James Cameron pitched the sequel to Alien by writing the title on a chalkboard, adding an “s”, then turning it into a dollar sign spelling “Alien$”. The project received $18 million dollars.
GAQnj TIL of the great Battle of Mrs. McCormack’s Cabbage Patch, a sassy name for a fight in which Irish rebels attempt to rescue McCormack hostages from police who are using them as human shields.
GVK1 TIL Nikola Tesla planned to secretly experiment on children, lining the walls of schoolrooms with high-voltage lines, believing that exposing them to the energy would make them healthier and smarter, and he believed every home in the future would soon do likewise.
bBB9 TIL In the heat of a battle in the Spanish-American war, Former Confederate cavalry hero General Joseph Wheeler allegedly cried “To hell with the Yankees! Dammit, I mean the Spainards.”
KYEVJ TIL about the Phoebus Cartel, an oligopoly that carved up the early light bulb market for profit and to reduce the operating life of light bulbs from about 2,500 hours to under 1,000 hours to force people to buy more bulbs. It’s an early example of planned obsolescence to drive profits.