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TIL that Segway, Inc. sued Ninebot - a Chinese company - for making knockoff Segways. Ninebot was so rich from selling knockoff Segways that they just bought Segway, Inc.

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Zpe5B TIL that embryos can be frozen for decades before being successfully born!
OoLY TIL that the English football league system has 24 levels made of 140 leagues and 480 divisions, comprising around 7,000 individual clubs (or teams). Theoretically a level 24 team can be promoted all the way to the Premier League.
ANMQg TIL There is a a parasite that can infect the human brain and alter our behaviour. It can cause road rage, increase chances of dying in a road accident and much more.
e0olL TIL Lenny Lipton, The man who wrote the children's song "Puff the Magic Dragon" also invented the modern method of projecting 3-D movies
wLAko TIL Clair Cameron Petterson, the American geochemist who proposed the still-accepted age of the Earth of 4.5 billion years old, helped accelerated the phaseout of lead from all standard, consumer, automotive gas, decreasing lead level in blood of Americans by 80% by the late 1990s.