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Butterfinger is the only candy bar that has a warning on it.The peanut-buttery is a $123.9 million-a-year candy.

In 1923, the public was invited to submit ideas for a name for the new chocolate-covered candy bar with a flaky peanut butter core.Sportscasters started using the term "butterfinger" to describe players who were unable to keep a hold on the ball.A man from Chicago submitted the name.

The Butterfinger was the follow-up to the success of the Baby Ruth candy bar.One of the largest competitors in the candy business was once Curtiss Candy, which was bought out by Standard Brands in 1964.

The original Butterfinger and Baby Ruth recipes were lost when Nabisco acquired the company in 1981.Nabisco quickly created a similar version of the candy bar.

The Simpsons began as a series of shorts on the comedy variety show The Tracey Ullman Show.Bart, Homer, and the rest of the family starred in commercials for a candy bar in 1988, a year before the crew from Springfield created their own show.If you hadn't watched the shorts, it might have looked like some commercial characters got their own prime time gig.

The first commercial for the candy bar that featured the Simpsons aired in 1988.In it, Bart details the four major food groups to Milhouse, but in what was just the first of many disappointment for his character, he realized that his lunch doesn't include the coveted candy bar.

Butterfinger dropped candy bars from airplanes across the country in 1923 in an attempt to make the candy bar more popular.

Butterfinger launched its BARmageddon campaign in 2012 in reference to the predicted end of the world by the Maya calendar.Butterfingers went missing from supermarket shelves and solar flares were reported in a press release, all of which pointed to the end of days.