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TIL Microsoft Sued the creators Lindows [a linux distro designed to be compatible with Windows] only to Pay THEM $20MM for the trademark rights

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JYXav TIL of the Battle of Hainan Island (Chinese Civil War). The Communists conducted a successful landing operation using 2000 traditional wooden junks. This led the KMT Navy to underestimate them and tried to capture them, only for the junks to reveal artillery pieces, forcing a KMT Destroyer to flee.
X0DMD TIL about Wallace "Wally" Bowers. Struggling to support four kids and a wife dying of cancer, he picked up additional weekend work for a logging company. He was killed during the eruption of Mount St. Helens of May 1980. His wife died three months later from her illness.
4X9lR TIL in 1994 Jim Carrey starred in Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
x6Ork TIL China only has one time zone
LkAEV TIL in 1981 Dean Koontz wrote a book "The Eyes of Darkness". The chapter 39 it mentions a Chinese military lab outside of the city of Wuhan, where a deadly virus is invented as part of the country's biological weapons warfare programme. Owing to the lab's location, the virus is named 'Wuhan-400'.