› added 4 years ago

238

TIL Rip offs in fashion design are legal as fashion designs are not copyrighted. Technical components of a design, such as proprietary fabrics like nylon, can be patented. Company names, slogans, and logos can be trademarked.

Read more vox.com

via reddit.com

DQ4br TIL Einstein used to make mistakes in his income returns, but tax authorities did not raise issues with him
6EeNl TIL that the size of the entire Walt Disney World resort is equal to the size of San Francisco
P1AeZ TIL that zombie worms bore into the bones of whale carcasses with their specialised root tissues
R7MY8 TIL of thioacetone, a chemical compound so pungent that when it was accidentally released in 1889, people started vomiting, suffered nausea and even unconsciousness up to 750 metres (0.47 miles) away.
R7ej4 TIL When you were born, you had 300 bones. Now you have 206. The human skeleton begins to develop 13 to 16 weeks after conception. At birth, a human has about 300 bones and cartilage elements, and many bones that will eventually fuse together are still separate, although joined by tough membranes.