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TIL: weird amazon products you should know about in 2023

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NXA4M TIL There is a zip code, 98164, in Seattle that is only 1 city block and has only 250 people in it.
N77xb TIL in Texas it isn't legal to carry a weapon on church property
M7eBa TIL an octopus mermaid (Such as Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid) is called a "Cecaelia", a modern term derived primarily from a black-and-white comic in Vampirella Magazine from the early 1970s featuring a woman/octopus hybrid character named Cilia.
epWEk TIL the company that makes ‘Baby Ruth’ candy sued Babe Ruth for company infringement when he tried to create his own candy company. They claimed it was named after Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth, who had died 17 years before the candy hit the market. Babe Ruth lost the suit.
69DyQ TIL about HTTP 451, an error status code displayed when the user requests a resource which cannot be served for legal reasons. The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451", in which books are outlawed..