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TIL The first snowboard was invented in 1917 & patented in 1939

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KYBG TIL: Sweden made slavery illegal as early as 1337
4k6bo TIL in 1831 the Swedish Navy planted over 300,000 oak trees with the intention of harvesting them for ships 150 years later. They remain unharvested today.
0dGJ1 TIL that EULAs came about after Nintendo sued Blockbuster for photocopying game manuals for games they were legally renting out thanks to the first sale doctrine
eKB6 TIL in 1978, the USS Stein was found to have been attacked by a squid. The ship’s hull suffered cuts over 8% of its surface. From one particularly complete imprint they discovered that the squid was significantly larger than any species of squid that had been discovered at the time.
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