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TIL: Instagram sued the person who purchased the domain slutsofinstagram.com for trademark infringement, but he defended the lawsuit claiming that the site wasn't Sluts of Instagram, but rather the adventures of a duck princess named Slutsof in the magical city of Stagram.

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XE05X TIL that Henry VIII of England agreed to marry Anne of Cleves after seeing a portrait that he commissioned of her. After meeting in person, Henry realized she wasn't as attractive as the painting suggested and annulled the marriage. The portrait is now displayed in the Louvre.
R51Pj TIL Pygmalion, a Greek myth about a sculptor who falls in love with his ivory statue, is the oldest known story of an inanimate object gaining sentience, predating Pinocchio by over 1,800 years."
Mejxa TIL The only Oscar won by "2001 A space Odyssey" was for special visual effects. Awarded to Stanley Kubrick it was his sole win from 13 nominations. The technicians involved felt it wrong for him to receive the sole credit. Following this controversy, the Academy changed its eligibility rule
x67MD TIL about the Amami rabbit, native to Amami Ōshima and reminiscent of ancient rabbits, which exclusively inhabits two small islands in Japan.
ZDwo TIL in 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Ratheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.