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TIL: The American company Segway sued a Chinese company for selling knockoff units, so the Chinese company acquired Segway.

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764x TIL that when Koichi Tanaka of Japan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002, he became the first to only have a bachelor’s degree. Tanaka was so unknown that he was on the second-lowest job level at the obscure Shimadzu Corp. The embarrassed scientific-instrument maker immediately promoted Tanaka.
VRM8 TIL Killer bees were created in an attempt to breed tamer and more manageable bees, but instead the offspring became more aggressive and highly defensive.
oBJVE TIL that obese people are sent to Zoos for their CT scans because they cannot fit in a standard hospital CT scanner.
8aZX TIL Dead ants give off a scent to signal other ants that they need to be carried away. The dead are brought to a designated graveyard in order to avoid bacteria spreading.
QJZ7d TIL that the Walkie Talkie building in London can reflect sunlight so intensely that it once melted a car