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TIL that in 1978 Apple Corps (founded by The Beatles) sued Apple Computers for trademark infringement winning $80,000USD. As a condition of the settlement Apple Computers also agreed to never enter the music business, which they later violated in 2003 at the launch of the iTunes Music Store.

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85W8 TIL that counterfit money printed by the british during the revolutionary war can be detected by its higher quality print than the legitimate bills
EL7d TIL that when Ken McElroy was murdered with at least two different guns, the residents of Skidmore, Missouri refused to identify the shooters. For decades he was known as the ‘town bully’ due to multiple crimes throughout town, and at the time was on trial for shooting an elderly grocer in the neck.
J1D4 TIL a man sued his wife for being ugly and won
Oo9BL TIL that in 1911, poisoning by drinking Lysol was the most common means of suicide in Australia and New York
R9X7 TIL The President’s speech in Independence Day was filmed on 6 August 1995 in front of an old aeroplane hangar. The hangar once housed the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima exactly 50 years earlier on 6 August 1945.