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TIL A woman who legally added ‘Skywalker’ as a middle name had her passport rejected because of trademark infringement

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DBBJ TIL A guy named Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States and the citizens of San Francisco went along with it.
L5MP TIL in 1988, Mark Wahlberg assaulted two Vietnamese men, knocking one man unconscious and permanently blinding the other, calling them “slant-eyed gooks”. He ended up serving 45 days for the crime.
o18W TIL that chimps in the wild will occasionally steal human infants and eat them.
0wdp5 TIL that Bumblebees were originally called Humblebees until about the mid 20th Century.
R78b8 TIL about a murderer who got caught 4 years after the crime because he had gotten the murder scene tattooed on his chest