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TIL in 1978 Apple Corps (owned by The Beatles) sued Apple Computer for trademark infringement. The case settled for $80,000 along with the condition that Apple Computer agreed not to enter the music business, and Apple Corps agreed not to enter the computer business.

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v149B TIL The State of Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Nuclear technician and whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. Later he was drugged, abducted and secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted.
Lkvkd TIL: When given colored construction paper, wasps build rainbow colored nests
ADex TIL the US-Canada border is the longest border in the world without a military defense.
OrZe TIL dry counties (counties where the sale of alcohol is banned) have a drunk driving fatality rate ~3.6 times higher than wet counties.
GY4JE TIL that on the side of Prussia in the Napoleonic War a woman named Friederike Krüger served disguised as a soldier and after the discovery of her gender was not only NOT thrown out of the army, but was allowed to continue fighting and was even promoted several times.