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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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b9MQN TIL that there's actually no number spelled with the letter "a" before 1,000.
l7RON TIL that Nikola Tesla openly expressed disgust for overweight people. Once, he fired his secretary because of her weight.
mxnnv TIL that there is a criminal called Dr. Ch@os who is currently incarcerated at the supermax prison ADX Florence for causing 28 power failures and hoarding large amounts of cyanide. After 20 years in prison, he was released on July 29th 2019.
woX97 TIL there's a type of bezoar (gastrointestinal stone) that develops from eating partially unripe persimmons and one of the cures for this is Coca-Cola, which is enough to completely dissolve the bezoar on its own in around half of the cases
gMGVX TIL at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics there was a "Savage Games" known as Anthropology Days staged. Native Americans and "ethnic tribesman" from many countries were shipped in to compete against each other with the purpose of displaying White superiority.