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TIL the Albuquerque minor league baseball team changed their name to the Albuquerque Isotopes after the Simpsons episode, “Hungry Hungry Homer” in which Homer tries to thwart the Springfield Isotopes plan to move to Albuquerque by staging a hunger strike.

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