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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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NJgE TIL of the existence of “Ring galaxies” - galaxies in which the majority of stars and gas coalesce in a donut-like shape around the center, in contrast to the typical galaxy in which stars and gas coalesce at the center itself.
grV14 TIL that British mathematician Lord Kelvin was so confident in his abilities, he once is said to have sent a servant to find out who was the second-highest scoring student in a mathematical competition at the University of Cambridge. The servant returned and replied "You were, sir".
OGP7e TIL Monty Python came to Germany in 1972, long before many other countries. The comedians were invited by Alfred Biolek to make TV specials in Germany, the first was performed phonetically and the second was dubbed. Terry Jones could still recite the German lumberjack song fourty years later.
jNVgE TIL: The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered the planet Pluto, were sent to outer space on the New Horizons spacecraft making his the first human remains to leave our solar system.
y1Ae TIL that instead of going to court over a copyright infringement dispute, the CEOs of Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation challenged each other to an arm wrestling duel via humorous letters. No lawyers were ever involved, and the men honored the outcome of the match.