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

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5YJkQ TIL Stephen Hawking was still working on "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" with questions like "Is there a God?" when he died. To fill the gaps, the publishers used Hawking’s “enormous personal archive” and completed the book with his academic colleagues, his family, and personal estate
XEOW6 TIL that Plato's real name was Aristocles, and Plato was a nickname he was given due to his broad stature.
KXQR TIL that in 1967, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry was chased by the race organizer shouting “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers” while her boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield.
xv6w TIL that Bradbury wrote the entire novel “Fahrenheit 451” in the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library on a pay typewriter that he rented for a fee of ten cents per half an hour. It took him only 9,80$ and 9days.