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TIL that outside the US and Canada, Duracell uses a pink bunny as a mascot. The Energizer Bunny was created in 1988 to mock Duracell, after Duracell’s pink bunny trademark in the US had expired. The two companies later agreed that Duracell would keep using a bunny mascot in other regions.

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