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TIL: in 2011, United States business incurred $29 billion dollars in direct costs because of patent trolls.

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QNLB6 TIL, after the death of 27-year-old physicist Henry Moseley at Gallipoli (WWI, 1915), the British Government placed a ban on other scientists of repute serving in front-line roles. Ernest Rutherford believed that Moseley's work would have earned him the Nobel Prize.
1ajbD TIL that there's a rare turtle in Australia that was discovered in 1990, when Steve Irwin found it in a crocodile catching trip. It was named after him.
mYxv TIL that while a Westboro spokeswoman was boasting about how the church foiled Anonymous on a radio talk show, an Anonymous spokesman called in and hacked the church’s website in real time on the air.
4XmGa TIL About Jamie Minor - The young woman who died alone trapped in an air duct over a steakhouse in downtown Austin, Texas
jKdQ TIL: The Soviet Union held it’s own version of the Olympic Games in which anyone could participate. The number of participants one year reached 90 million people.