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TIL that both the Energizer and Duracell battery brands use a pink bunny as their mascot. Duracell had it first, but they failed to renew the North American trademark, so Europeans associate the pink bunny with Duracell and North Americans see it as an Energizer brand.

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VoQ4 TIL in the medieval times animals could go to trial. In 1457 a sow and six piglets were charged for killing a 5 year old boy. The mom was deemed guilty, the piglets’ role, however, was ambiguous. Although splattered with blood, they were never seen directly attacking the boy.
PYDXe TIL that, before iTunes, before CD's, music was played on something called a "phonograph record," or more simply, "record". Made of a type of plastic, record were flat discs with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. One needed a "phonograph", or "record player" to play the music.
a5G0 TIL that a sparrow was shot because it knocked over 23000 domino bricks, just 4 days prior to the Domino Day Event. The shooter was later fined for shooting an endangered species.
mebO TIL Female sand tiger sharks have two uteri carrying hundreds of eggs, but the strongest embryo in each eats off all other eggs and hatchlings near it. Only two babies are born later - one from each uterus.
jNpkp TIL that the two 'M's of M & M's represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, who had a 20 percent share in the product.