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TIL that in 2009 after 10 years of legal battle, ford motor company was ordered to pay $55 million to a small time Illinois inventor for willfully infringing on his patents.

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mYGv TIL that in 1972 a radio was designed that ‘sneezed’ every 6 months in order to protect the microprocessors from dust.
GAgD1 TIL about a Brazilian Con artist called Carlos Kaiser, who had a decade long career as a Football player, and managed to sign for multiple teams, without player even one regular game. The one time he almost had to play, he started a fight during, to get a Red Card, avoiding to actually play.
oRBxA TIL that the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail wasn't a random piece of comedy. It was inspired by actual medieval manuscripts
rRbG4 TIL so many tools were made from Libyan sandstone in the stone age that it is enough for 84 million Great Pyramids of Giza, ~2 per square km of Africa.
xGYo TIL in 1983 a preserved head was discovered at a bog in Lindow Moss. Believing the remains to be his former wife, Peter Reyn-Bardt confessed to murdering her in 1960. When testing later found the head was from 250AD, Reyn-Bardt tried to revoke his confession but was still convicted of her murder.