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TIL when a Massachusetts mall let a Qdoba open there, another tenant -- Panera -- sued. Panera had the exclusive right to sell sandwiches and argued that Qdoba's burritos violated that right. The judge disagreed and ruled that a burrito is not a sandwich.

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O6R6 TIL Jim Lovell said in his book that if the Apollo 13 crew stayed still long enough when the electricity shut off, their body heat would form a cocoon of warm air around them. With everything shut down as much as possible he said even a slight movement would destroy the layer of heat.
kJAj7 TIL that despite having a population of more than 5 million, Scotland only has 8 cities
lode5 TIL a researcher recorded more than 100 animal handlers and found it's pretty much universal -- regardless of the language spoken or the animal being handled -- that humans use short, repeated sounds to get an animal to go or speed up, and long, slow sounds to get an animal to stop or slow down.
pYnjQ TIL NATO logo does not say NATO backwards. NATO is an acronym for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. OTAN is an acronym for the French translation of that. Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord.
8a4mK TIL that one of the most popular characters in the Attack On Titan anime, Levi, was not in the live action remake because the name was too difficult to write in Japanese