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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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xvkg TIL that Aubrey Plaza’s character in Parks and Rec (April Ludgate) was written into the show only after the casting director met her and insisted she somehow be put in the show.
D1bVe TIL About Joginder Singh, an Indian soldier who single-handedly killed 56 people in one battle with a bayonet.
v604 TIL that Henry Ford astonished the world in 1914 by offering a $5 per day wage ($110 today), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers.
4jb TIL An elephant can use it’s penis as a “fifth leg” to prop itself up, swat flies, and even scratch itches.
OWpR TIL In Japan, if someone is photographed or filmed while handcuffed, their hands have to be pixelated if it is used on TV or in the newspapers. In France, a law prohibits media from airing images of people in handcuffs, or otherwise restrained, before they have been convicted by a court.