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TIL the "Pac-Man defense" is when a company being bought out in a hostile takeover counterattacks by trying to buy out the aggressor.

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m1Rjy TIL that when a Samurai acquired a new Katana or learned a new move they would sometimes proceed to test it on a random pedestrian, it's called Tsujigiri
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D1Q6V TIL that one of the main engineers behind NASA's Challenger rocket, which exploded in 1986, revealed that after NASA would not heed his warnings against launching in the cold weather, he told his wife the night before the launch, "It's going to blow up."