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TIL Frosted Flakes cannot be trademarked and other products can be named Frosted Flakes

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G6oQ TIL the Mongols once built a large wooden platform and forced six Russian princes to lay down underneath it. The Mongol generals then held a feast on the platform, crushing the Russians to death.
D1gZv TIL, in 1947, the FBI considered “It’s A Wonderful Life” to be Communist propaganda
QNJEe TIL - Toyota was caught cheating in the '95 World Rally Championship. Engineers developed a mechanism to temporarily remove the mandated turbo restrictor plate and give their Celica an extra 50 BHP.
b9xBZ TIL that the brutal "Contest to behead 100 People" that some ww2 Japanese officers engaged in likely has to do with the Samurai practice of beheading high value targets for verification purposes & glory seeking.
Wr8N TIL a year before “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch killed 4 people while driving drunk, he was caught with alcohol and a naked, passed-out 14-yr-old in his truck. Since then, his mother was convicted of forcing another vehicle off the road and his father was arrested for impersonating a police officer.