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TIL Adidas is named after founder Adolf Dassler. In WW2, some of its football line became known as "Kampf" and "Blitz."

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VMjL0 TIL Canada will keep a foreigner's fingerprints for 15 years on attempting to enter the country, or until the applicant is 100 should they be refused entry on criminal grounds.
wL9M6 TIL about "lonely negatives". These are words with common prefixes or suffixes such as "dis-", "in-", "un-", "-less" but they don't have positive counterparts such as the words "disgust", "disappoint", "reckless" - they don't have "gust", "appoint", or "reckful" as their opposites.
R7x16 TIL researchers did an experiment in 1999 on rats to see how long they could live without sleep. They mostly lasted 2 weeks of this torture before succumbing.
XEW0Q TIL cows are the cause of 20 times more deaths than sharks. Whenever a cow gets scared they will charge and attack, considering they are over 1000 pounds death due to a cow charge is highly plausible. Sharks usually only kill humans when they mistake them for some other source of food like a turtle.
9wVw7 TIL Blue Bunny ice cream was named in a 1935 contest. The winner noted how much his little boy enjoyed seeing blue bunnies in a department store window at Easter and thought it made a fun name. He won $25 (today's equivalent, $560).