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TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt-Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.

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negE9 TIL during Taylor Swift’s boycott of Spotify, her hit “I Knew You Were Trouble” was on the site, credited to the Welsh band lostprophets. The band is now infamous for their frontman being a convicted pedophile.
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