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TIL In 1914 the Coca-Cola Company was flooded with look-alike competitors. They requested design proposals for their product: a “bottle so distinct that you would recognize if by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground.” It became a classic example of design patents for law students.

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KOOaG Short answer: Not really.
b6XQp TIL In 2021 a new species of fish was identified that has the smallest adult brain size of all known vertebrates. It's also the loudest of all known fish relative to its size.
R76Qa TIL the world's largest single site of dinosaur bones lies quietly beside a Canadian town of just 37 people.
DG5g TIL as young actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire blocked the release of a film they starred in as it debased their clean images. After settling a lawsuit filed against them by the film’s producer it remains unreleased in the US.
PYAnL TIL: In 1995 Richard Stallman, a well-known critic of the patent system, testified in Patent Office hearings that, to test the system, a colleague of his had managed to win a patent for one of Kirchhoff's laws, an observation about electric current first made in 1845.