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TIL that according to the US Supreme Court, mathematics cannot be patented

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yxov TIL that the 30 year old Sega Master System (released in 1986) is still sold in Brazil and even in 2015, 150,000 units were sold.
VB7dp TIL the $327.6 million Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999 due to a unit conversion error. NASA's team used metric units, while Lockheed Martin used Imperial units for calculations, causing the spacecraft to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up.
VMvmp til of r.a.p.p. (rockers against pay-to-play), a group in los angeles in the late eighties who organized protests against hollywood music venues that required performers to buy a large amount of pre-sale tickets before they would book the aforementioned act
M7ZK TIL that we are NOT running out of Helium any time soon.
78xer TIL that Tetsuya Ishida (1973–2005) was a Japanese painter known for surreal works showing boys and men fused with machines and urban life. His art explores isolation, consumerism, work stress, and the monotony of modern city living.