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TIL: The patent for the Lego brick expired years ago, which is why copycat products like Mega Bloks are allowed to exist

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lYZ7 TIL that the DeLorean Motor Company, under new management, plans to release a new, electric DMC.
xkj0 TIL In 1945, Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.
yQaWa TIL Herge published his comic book 'The Adventures of Tintin: Explorers on the Moon' in 1954, 15 years before Neil Armstrong became the first man to land on the Moon
6EPjm TIL: The Polish cavalry charge against German tanks was a myth stoked by Nazi propaganda. In reality, the cavalrymen successfully attacked infantry. Some were even equipped with antitank weaponry.
rQXd TIL Industrially-Grown Tomatoes are grown not for flavor but for their resilience to being hauled across the country. They are picked very unripe and green. Trucks transporting them are pumped full of Ethylene gas to artificially ripen them.