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TIL because trademarks can become generic - which means companies can lose rights to the mark - Transformers no longer transform in packaging and some marketing. They are listed as converting instead.

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5pwR TIL that it is illegal to collect or possess eagle feathers in the United States, and only enrolled members of a federally recognized Native American tribe may legally possess them.
R5w99 TIL in 2021, an advisory was issued in Rawalpindi, Pakistan for motorcyclists to install a flexible safety antenna that would connect to the mudguard or handlebar of the motorcycle, arch over the rider, and connect to the rear, in order to prevent death or injury from glass-laced kite strings.
WMV4 TIL The original name of color orange was Geoluhread and later people started calling it Orange after the fruit.
aw7GJ TIL days are gradually getting longer; the modern day is longer by about 1.7 milliseconds than a century ago.
9w65p TIL that when the Arctic ground squirrel hibernates it's body temperature can reach -2.9 degrees. It can prevent it's blood from freezing by cleansing it's body of ice nucleators which enable the development of ice crystals. This is being studied to help preserve human organs for transplant.