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TIL the satire show Have I Got News For You once published about a British politician: “Given Mr Allason’s fondness for pursuing libel actions, there are also excellent legal reasons for not referring to him as a conniving little shit.” He promptly sued and lost.

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R55o4 TIL that if you think some vegetables taste disgusting, you are most likely one of the 30% of all humans who have twice as many taste buds as other people, a "Super-Taster", who can taste glucosinolate, which is a very bitter chemical in plants and exists in large amounts in things like salad stems.
LEjm TIL the US Patent and Trademark Office has the ability to suppress patents that it deems a danger to national security. As of 2012, over 5300 patents have been suppressed and Congress wants to give the USPTO broader powers to limit inventions that could damage the economy.
ylPa TIL: In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK’s assassination.
yQdWl TIL that during the 2007 Glasgow airport attack, as one of the perpetrators tried to open the boot of his jeep, a taxi driver, Alex McIlveen, kicked him in the groin so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot.
6MkJ TIL that Cambodia has an unemployment rate of approximately 0%