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TIL Twitter owns the patent to the “pull to refresh” feature common on so many applications, but has vowed not to sue other companies that use the gesture, as part of a broader intellectual property detente.

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N9WE TIL: Killer bees are a manmade hybrid species that are only found in the wild because they accidentally escaped quarantine in 1957.
dDWeQ TIL that on November 16, 1776, the tiny island country of Sint Eustatius became the first foreign government to officially recognize the United States of America, firing a salute to an American brig
0drw5 TIL that Europeans used to rent pineapples to display as status symbols
P1OOL TIL that if you are watching a youtube video and it is not in fullscreen mode, whenever the person in the video says 'Smash that like button' the like and dislike button glows and when they say 'subscribe' the 'Subscribe' button glows in the same way, and it is limited to only one time.
0d7oy TIL that in 1922, there was a Straw Hat Riot in New York that lasted 8 days. Teens were taking straw hats off of random men and stomping them because of an unwritten rule that straw hats should not be worn after Sept 15th.