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TIL in some situations smells can be trademarked in the US

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deAr TIL that the most accepted theory on how AIDS was first transmitted to humans is that a Bantu hunter, while processing a newly killed, and infected, chimpanzee, got cut himself and got the animal’s blood into his body.
lo6m7 TIL a New York taxi driver once hit 240 consecutive green lights in a single drive around the city
epZr6 TIL that Gorgonzola is one of the oldest known blue cheeses, having been created around AD 879, though it is said that it did not contain blue veins until around the 11th century.
ADO6n TIL that in 2007 Paris Hilton was banned from attending Oktoberfest because locals felt she would cheapen the event as they did not appreciate how she was trying to promote her canned wine!
b9GRQ TIL strawberries are technically neither fruit nor berry