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TIL Microsoft has a patent, for opening a new window when you click a hyperlink, that expires in 2021

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6j6Q TIL that Gangnam Style was so viral and gathered views so quickly, YouTube had to change the view count system to prevent a stack overflow as the original 32-bit integer system tops out at ~2.14 billion.
K09w TIL there is an eye shadow called “Nic Cage Raking Leaves on a Brisk October Afternoon”
v8lL TIL: Despite implications to the contrary, the USA spends more money on education, per student, than any other country in the world. Funding isn’t the problem in the US
R5eM7 TIL a suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded the Somali owned Daallo Airlines in 2016 intending to blow the whole aircraft. Twenty minutes after the takeoff, the bomb exploded, creating a hole in the plane, and the suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane. He was the only fatality.
vamR TIL Chess grandmaster Judit Polgár beat a family friend at age 5 without looking at the board.