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TIL Caterpillar Inc. (the machinery company) once sued a coffee shop in Santa Cruz, California called Cat and Cloud Coffee over their use of the word "CAT".

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9YJRM TIL a scientist grew mold in a dish, placing it in the center representing Tokyo and oat flakes around it the other cities in the area. It first filled the space with plasmodia, and then thinned the network to focus on well connected branches. The network strikingly resembled Tokyo's rail system.
m66O TIL that because of different bacteria living on man/woman’s body, man’s sweat smells like cheese and woman’s smells like onions.
v1MnK TIL about Chuck E Cheese's origin story. He grew up in an orphanage and did not know his own birthday. They celebrated birthdays on a weekly basis at the orphanage where they enjoyed pizza and sang "Happy Birthday", his favorite song. He's also really good at playing Pong and won $50 for it once.
Ky54 TIL the “skin” on the Statute of Liberty is only 2.4mm thick. About the thickness of two pennies.
vnGL TIL of Alexander Solonik, a Russian hitman who was known for using a pistol in each hand, killing over 30 Russian mafia bosses, and escaping from prison three times.