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TIL Xerox invented and patented Ethernet

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9w4r6 TIL that 'Cocaine Hippos', a problem in Columbia, can be legally recognised as people in the US.
E1l0p TIL about the USS Mayflower - the only ship to serve in the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Israeli Navy.
PYyGg TIL the Ancient Greeks considered employment (working for hire) to be degrading, "a necessary evil that took time away from leisure, politics, education, and culture, and had little positive value in and of itself."
oBDjW TIL in order to get the fluid and cartoonish animations that 'Crash Bandicoot' required, programmers found a way to hack into the hardware of the Sony Playstation and exploited built-in code libraries to maximize the available memory for the game
b68P9 TIL the shrimp industry removes the eyes of female shrimp to increase reproduction, calling it "eyestalk ablation."