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A SpaceX rocket launch blew a temporary hole in Earth's upper atmosphere.
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TIL that in 1998, Nestle trademarked the tubular packaging of Smarties. It later sued Masterfoods Denmark which marketed M&Ms in a similar package. The Supreme Court of Denmark later ruled that a basic geometrical shape couldn’t be trademarked, and ordered the trademark to be removed.
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TIL: In Japan, yonige-ya, "run away at night" or “fly-by-night”, companies service people who want to become johatsu, “evaporated people”, who are people who want to disappear and never be found.
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TIL the “Overton Window” is political shorthand for pitching an outrageous idea first in order to make a less radical idea seem more appealing
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TIL: We might have had cassettes , answering machines and VHS neatly 60 years earlier if not for paranoia by Bell Labs /AT&T executives.
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TIL that there was a failed Yorkshire uprising in 1820 that failed because the uprisers lost their nerve at the last second