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TIL that the BBB does not allow a company to receive a positive review unless they pay $400-$1000 /year

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OoO47 TIL Duke Nukem's original developer, Apogee Software, feared they would be sued due to the Captain Planet and the Planeteers animated series featuring a character with the same name. They renamed the 2.0 version of its game Duke Nukum because of this. It turned out the name was not registered.
VMPnB TIL that the 'Velociraptors' in the Jurassic Park franchise are based of the dinosaur Deinonychus, but Michael Crichton used the name of a different dinosaur species because it sounded cooler.
GAL9j TIL in 2014, a woman was held in jail for one month after police mistook sauce from a can of SpaghettiOs on a spoon in her purse for meth. The arresting officer said he “found it strange” that Huff would eat SpaghettiOs and put the spoon in her purse
Oor8L TIL that Meerkats are the most murderous animals on earth. 20% of all meerkats die at the hands of another meerkat.
Kbpa TIL Milhouse got his name because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”