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TIL that under the Invention Secrecy Act, the U.S. government can prevent certain patent applications from being disclosed if they deem the invention a threat to national security. Inventors can be prohibited from sharing or profiting from their own creations without even knowing why.

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ANQLw TIL the sinuosity of rivers may not be pi
vV4K TIL a British TV show intercepted TV and Internet feeds, creating weeks of fake stories and programs from trusted sources, and staged a zombie apocalypse using hundreds of actors, just to convince one person the world was ending.
4kvya Til that in Norse mythology they believed in 2 giants wolves known as Hati and Skoll, these wolves would then chase the sun and moon eventually devouring them during Ragnarok.
x67XB TIL that during the construction of the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico workers found a human skeleton. It was later identified as the body of a passenger that had been ejected from a passenger aircraft that had experienced decompression during an engine failure.
R6xa TIL Bill Murray thinks the Hong Kong Comedy ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ was “the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy”