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TIL patent offices do not accept applications for perpetual motion machines.

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KZG4 TIL that Winston Churchill had a plan called “Operation Unthinkable” to invade the Soviet Union in a surprise attack immediately after the end of WWII. His plan was finally shot down when it was learned that the Soviet troops remaining outnumbered allied troops 3:1.
Y7jVB TIL in 2023 an amateur blogger biologist spotted several inconsistencies in the data published by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's scientists in their research papers, which led to a massive retraction campaign by the institute
vD1B TIL the beat of the “Mission: Impossible” theme spells out the letters “MI” in Morse code (–..)
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