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

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b9jG9 TIL To call someone a goat (козёл) in Russia is one of the worst insults. It has a criminal connotation and people got harmed and even killed over it.
wLL0W TIL of Uriel Acosta, a 17th century Jewish philosopher. After being found guilty of heresy, he was given 39 lashes and was forced to lie in the doorway to his synagogue while the congregation stepped on him as they entered. He was so humiliated, that he then grabbed a pistol and shot himself.
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