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TIL “iOS” is trademarked by Cisco, not Apple

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868a TIL the Nickelodeon cartoon series, The Angry Beavers, is one of the only cartoons where a clock on the wall–visible in most episodes–updates in real time.
VMmpk TIL in 2015, a flight from the UK to Dubai had to turn around and land after 30 minutes because of a 'poisonous' smell in the plane. The smell was later confirmed to be the "liquid faecal excrement" of a passenger in the toilet, which was so bad it caused a safety hazard.
xyw0 TIL an African man killed a lion with his bare hands before bleeding out and dying at a hospital after being attacked by hyenas
78omX TIL that there was a spinoff of Final Fantasy XIl in the works by a Swedish game developer (Grin), but Square Enix disapproved of the game developer's Nordic art style. SE refused to bankroll the idea and Grin filed for bankruptcy.
1M7X TIL During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, four NOPD officers shot a man named Henry Glover, attacked civillians that came to his aid, and then set fire to his corpse. They are facing sentences of 25+ years each.