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TIL Harvey Comics, the creators of Casper, sued Columbia Pictures, alleging their Ghostbusters logo was too similar to Fatso from the Ghostly Trio. Harvey sought $50m and the destruction of all copies of the film.

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e0kKb TIL in 2008, a British man was found dead at his apartment- he had been decapitated by a chainsaw. He was the last tenant in a block of flats which had been cleared for redevelopment. Police said his death was not suspicious. Post-mortem tests showed he died of a "complete transection of the neck".
RMo6 TIL: A convincing study shows that business leaders and serial killers share a mindset
x67B1 TIL: That the inventor of the Airplane and the Inventor of Cheez-Its lived across the street from each other. We were touring Orville Wright's home and learned that their neighbor across the street was Weston Green, who invented Cheez-Its.
e0Avn TIL Forrest Gump was based on a book, and the book had a sequel in which they mention the movie and Forrest meets Tom Hanks, specifically as to avoid being able to make a movie from that book
QVPp TIL that “generic” and “specific” are derived from “genus” and “species” and were originally scientific biological terminology