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TIL that Chubby Checker sued HP over the name of a penis-measuring App in 2013

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Lkvkd TIL: When given colored construction paper, wasps build rainbow colored nests
VMDVZ TIL of Alice Bradley Sheldon, an author who wrote under different names to hide her gender and identity. Best known as James Tiptree Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon, she was not very successful getting published under the psuedonym Raccoona until her other alter, Tiptree, wrote to publishers to intervene.
xA01 TIL Brendan Small, co-creator and voice actor of Metalocalypse, performs the vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, and (most) bass guitar for all the studio recordings for the Dethklok music heard in the show, and is frontman for live Dethklok concerts.
BrLDb TIL that one of the last messages ever sent by the Nazis and intercepted by intelligence officials at Bletchley Park in the UK was "British troops entered Cuxhaven at 1400 on 6 May. From now on all radio traffic will cease - wishing you all the best"
lo70N TIL in 2009, after deciding to switch from estimated to actual water meter readings, the city of Brockton billed a woman for a total of $100,000 covering 12 years of back charges.