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TIL as Apple is granted “Slide-to-Unlock” patent, they in a case against Motorola also argued “a tap is a zero-length swipe.”

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DRxY TIL that Florida Newscaster and TV personality Christine Chubbuck killed herself with a pistol on live TV. Her last words: “And now, in keeping with Channel 40’s policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you’re about to see another first - an attempted suicide.”
OgQY TIL Hitler had a bunker in the hills of Los Angeles built by American fascists.
4kRNg TIL the first mass produced electric car called "Enfield 8000" was made in a small island called Ermoupolis, Syros in Greece in 1973 by a Greek millionaire shipowener called Giannis Goulandris
YJnZ TIL Switzerland swore eternal neutrality in 1515 after losing the Battle of Marignano
XE5lP TIL Dolly Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” (later covered by Whitney Houston, and one of the best selling singles of all time) on the same night