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TIL IBM holds the record for most annual US patents generated by a business for 29 consecutive years

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4k07w TIL about Batesian mimicry: a non-poisonous butterfly mimics the bright colors of poisonous ones. Predators avoiding the poisonous colors prey on dark-colored butterflies, favoring the survival of mimics. This increases the frequency of alleles for mimicry in the non-poisonous population.
nWNvY TIL Madagascar had pygmy hippopotamuses that went extinct likely within the last thousand yeas. They may have survived as late as a 1976.
78Jn7 TIL Byron (Low-Tax) Looper, the Nominee for a seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives, who decided the only way to win was to murder his opponent. Despite being the only person left on the ballot, he still lost the election and was sentenced to life in prison.
N7lO1 TIL about the law of flat surfaces which says that if you have a flat surface in your home, it will get filled with clutter
X0g1E TIL the number of Indian seamen employed on UK ships was so great that the British tried to restrict this by the Navigation Acts in force from 1660, which required that 75 percent of the crew of a British-registered ship importing goods from Asia had to be British.