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TIL in 1994, an entire Fantastic Four movie was made and never released, just so the studio didn’t lose the rights to the IP.

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4XvKg Today I learned that Burger King (not the chain) in Mattoon, IL can be the only food restaurant that can be named that in that town and cannot use the name outside the town. Also Burger King (the chain) has the rights to the name everywhere else except in Mattoon, IL
erg5 TIL that 95% of consumers buy organic foods because they thought it meant it was pesticide free, even though farmers use pesticides on organic crops.
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Z8l8Q TIL that the early Earth may have had two moons. The second formed from the leftover debris from the Giant Impact and stayed in orbit for tens of millions of years before crashing into the far side of the moon. This explains why the two sides of the moon are vastly different from each other.