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TIL in 1982, Universal Studios sued Nintendo over alleged similarities between King Kong and Donkey Kong. Not only did they lose, but the court found a King Kong game that Universal licensed was actually in violation of Nintendo’s copyrights.

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abYA TIL: Between 1903 to 1905, a cartoonist named Gustave Verbeek created a comic strip called The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, in which half of the story was illustrated and captioned right-side-up, but when turned upside-down, it showed the scenes of the second half.
N18E TIL Dorothy Kilgallen, a panelist on the hit TV show What’s My Line?, died under what some consider mysterious circumstances while investigating the assassination of JFK. Shortly before she died, she told a friend, “I’m going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century.”
4XJgX TIL the cellist of Electric Light Orchestra, Mike Edwards, was killed when a 1,300 pound hay bale rolled down a hill and collided with the van he was driving.
Dd1r TIL of all corn grown in the US, only 1% is actually sold as corn for human consumption
pYGgQ TIL that Robert Oppenheimer's Interim Committee advised the American government not to warn Hiroshima's civilians of the impending atomic bomb. He was nervous that the bomb may not detonate properly, and also felt that a lack of warning would create a greater panic among Japanese leadership.