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TIL: Nintendo launched a public relations and legal campaign in the 80's to prevent people from using "Nintendo" as a term to describe video games because they feared it would genericize the name and prevent them from keeping their trademark.

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BrrGe TIL flush toilets, urban brick and mortar sewers, paved and graded streets and other aspects of hydraulic/civil engineering were present in the Indus Valley thousands of years before they appeared in the west.
R7Lja TIL about Mandate of Heaven, theory in China, according to which the ruler must have the support of Heaven to rule. Moral rulers who care for their people gain the mandate. If a despot sits on the throne, the Heavens can withdraw it, which they signal through e.g. eclipses, floods, wars, plagues etc
Lk08v TIL: Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is a convicted Paedophile after he pleaded guilty to the felony “use of a child in a sexual performance”. The incident involved a 13-year-old girl performing sex acts, and he later distributed videos of the incident online as part of a music video.
X0k6r TIL In the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvo cars from Sweden. The cars were shipped and delivered, but North Korea simply ignored the invoice and refused to pay. Till this day the bill for $70 Million remains unpaid making it the largest car theft in history
yQwdJ TIL: According to a 2017 study, the Brazilian Butt Lift (taking fat from elsewhere and injecting it in the buttocks) is one of the most dangerous cosmetic surgeries with 1 in 3,000 leading to death.