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TIL The Goodyear Blimp is the Official bird of Redondo Beach California!

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4kyeJ TIL In 1986, Ginger Rogers sued the US distributors of the Federico Fellini film Ginger and Fred for trademark infringement. The court ruled in favor of the defendants. Now, the "Rogers test" is used in cases where trademark holders' rights conflict with artistic expression.
X0oDP TIL of an annual celebration in a town in Colorado called Frozen Dead Guy Days. It loosely celebrates the frozen body of a deceased Norwegian grandfather
OGV17 TIL that Alfred Hitchcock directed 11 silent films and the first British talkie, Blackmail (1929)
bMXE TIL in 1992, a team of game developers used a white puffball as a placeholder graphic while they designed their game’s protagonist. They grew fond of the puffball, and decided to keep him rather than replace him with a real character. He became the iconic character Kirby.
8po4 TIL Mister Rogers poured the wax that made the 100 billionth Crayola crayon.