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AwLa TIL Nikolai Tesla patented a one-way-valve with no moving parts in 1920 (Patent US1329559)
BGlL TIL Facebook steals billions of views from YouTube by rigging their algorithms, counting views after 3 seconds, and “freebooting,” or downloading someone else’s copyrighted content and uploading it into Facebook’s video player
b9Nkj TIL If Pinocchio says 'my nose grows now' he causes a paradox. This was proposed in 2001 by an 11 year old.
DelP TIL that at the North Pole it is whatever time you say it is.