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TIL Nissan.com is not owned by the car company, but by a single guy named Uzi Nissan. He has been fighting the car company in court since 1999

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6Dyl TIL Robert Noyce passed up being the worlds first trillionaire by making his patent on silicon chips public domain. Thus allowing technological innovation leading to modern day electronics.
Ra8j TIL that a Canadian teenager once settled out of court and exchanged his domain name MikeRoweSoft.com for an xbox and games from Microsoft
wQj7 TIL In Belgium, Poland, Portugal and France everyone is automatically an organ donor, unless they refuse beforehand.
4Y1J TIL the origin of the word “decimate” as we use it today came from the Roman military practice of punishing groups of soldiers by executing every 10th man
9exr TIL that after his mom died, Albert Ransom learned to code and built an indie game called CandySwipe. Two years later, a near-identical game called Candy Crush Saga was released.