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TIL Someone sued apple because they hated iOS 7 so much

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GYEO4 TIL that the first British animated film "Animal Farm" was secretly produced and funded by the CIA as anti-Communist propaganda
Y7pLW TIL in the countersuit of Billy Mitchell by Twin Galaxies arcade over fraudulent high scores, there was a request for $3,333,360 in general damages- same number as the possible highest Pac-Man score- and $3,160,200 in special damages- equal to the sum of Mitchell's faked Donkey Kong scores.
16pZP TIL why all clocks go clockwise. In Medieval times, the sun-dials used as clocks in Northern Hemisphere used to trace clockwise. Early timepieces were made to mimic this motion. This, however, became such a norm that we started describing rotational motion in 2D as "clock"wise and counter"clock"wise
jNgyp TIL: Homo Erectus lived for much longer than even our current species. H. Erectus was around for about 2 million years before being wiped out, H. Sapiens have only been around for about 200,000 years.
oR0Yo TIL the 1993 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to 977 co-authors for publishing the medical research paper, "An International Randomized Trial Comparing Four Thrombolytic Strategies for Acute Myocardial Infarction", which has 100 times as many authors as pages.