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TIL that in 1992, instead of engaging in a messy legal battle over the use of a slogan, the CEOs of Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation simply arm-wrestled for whose company would own it.

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85Ra TIL in 1985, John Fogerty of CCR was sued for sounding like himself in his solo music. The cost: $1.1 million in legal fees. He pushed it to the Supreme Court to fight the double standard of defendants not being awarded the fees & won, setting a precedent that defends artists from corporate sabotage
GEv7 TIL the Parthenon is in such bad condition because occupying Turkish forces used it as a powder magazine which exploded when hit by a Venetian shell in 1687.
a84kA TIL The United States came to the aid of North Korea to fend off a pirate attack in 2007 off the coast of Mogadishu
694Z TIL there was a gorilla named Micheal who learned sign language then described what it was like to watch his mother be killed by poachers
arn9 TIL If Alaska had the population density of Manhattan there would be 41 billion people there.