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TIL that Ninebot, a Chinese manufacturer of Segway style scooters, made so much money off their copies that they could afford to buy Segway.

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6En4w TIL about The Whole Shabang, a brand of chips initially only sold at prison commissary stores. The chips were so popular amongst ex inmates that it became a grey market commodity and finally was sold to the general public.
v1mMx TIL the most successful football (soccer) team in East Germany was SC Dynamo Berlin. The President of the club was also the head of the STASI secret police.
yVGRp TIL: Project Orion was a project by DARPA and NASA to use nukes to propel spacecraft supported by Von Braun , the biggest design was the "Super" Orion which hoods 1080 nukes, weigh 8 million tons, and was described as an interstellar ark. However, problems included nuclear fallout on Earth.
6EADm TIL that in the middle ages Christian priests would recite "hoc est corpus", meaning "this is the body", during mass when turning bread into the body of Christ. Since nobody spoke or understood Latin, this chant was garbled into "hocus pocus", which we still use when performing magic tricks today.
w1OW TIL an Islamic religious authority blamed women who dress immodestly for causing earthquakes. In response a blogger organized Boobquake, an event where 200,000 women wore immodest clothing in a light-hearted scientific experiment to produce an earthquake.