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TIL Amazon holds a patent on 1-click buying; Apple pays them licensing fees

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BDpK TIL: The average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 40 days of combat in four years (10 days in one year). The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year thanks to the mobility of the helicopter.
Y7a7G TIL the original title of Hellraiser apparently was going to be "Sadomasochists From Beyond The Grave"
dLV8 TIL - In athletics if you move as the gun sounds, you have considered to have false started - as the human brain cannot hear and process the noise of the starting gun in under 0.10 seconds
nW9B7 TIL Theres only 6 full-time skywriters in the world
VBd0G TIL that a genetic disease might have been behind Henry VIII’s low number of surviving children and his crazed behavior in his middle and later years.