1. Recipes can’t be trademarked, but some can be ruled trade secrets, like the formula for Dr. Pepper or KFC’s 11 herbs and spices.
2. A woman sued Quaker Oats in 2009 for false advertising when she found out the Crunch Berries in Cap’n Crunch weren’t real fruit. But a judge dismissed the lawsuit.
3. Michael Jackson really wanted to play Spider-Man in a movie, but he knew he’d never get cast . . . so in the ’90s, he actually tried to BUY Marvel Comics to make it happen.
