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TIL Nissan Motors sued Uzi Nissan (owner of Nissan Computer Corp and nissan.com of 20+ years) for $10M. Uzi has spent over $3M defending his right and legally the courts agree, but still Nissan Motors is trying to muscle the domain away via Trademark law by entering the computers market.

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wyW6 TIL of “resiniferatoxin”, a naturally occurring chemical that is 7273 times hotter than any pepper in the world, and 1000 times hotter than pure capsaisin. It books in at 16 trillion Scoville units
bMBZ TIL The costliest trial in US history was the McMartin Preschool Trial, a case of satanic abuse hysteria. The investigator’s bias resulted in children recalling stories of witches flying, travelling in hot-air balloons, being flushed down the toilet, and having been assaulted by Chuck Norris.
1ep8 TIL that when Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates,he demanded they increase his ransom,treated the pirates as subordinates while enslaved,earned their respect and friendship,only to tell them he would hunt them down and have them executed when freed;which he eventually did.
GAQm7 TIL about Raya and Sakina two Egyptian sisters who were serial killers and first women to be executed in modern Egypt, they were involved in murder of 17 women
Zpg9G TIL that cicadas pee by ejecting water from their bodies and there’s a term called cicada rain.