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TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s

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D5Nr TIL Patent trolls (more formally non-practicing entities that hold a patent) now account for 61% of all patent litigation (up from 5% 10 years ago), and lose 91% of all cases. Research has said these cases have caused half a trillion, and nearly $80 billion annually, in wealth loss since 1990.
Ne5P TIL that Stalin screened “The Grapes of Wrath” in the Soviet Union to showcase the depredations of life under capitalism. It backfired. Russian audiences marveled that in the United States, even poor people had cars. (6th paragraph)
awbP0 TIL about Mill Ends Park, the world's smallest park
o0MY TIL that in the 19th century China came extremely close to being ruled by the leader of a Christian cult who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It took the deadliest civil war in history with 30 million dead to defeat him.
kJvZB TIL: Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). They are clinics that operate with government funding, sliding scale, and some insured to help care for the communities of uninsured and underinsured.