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TIL of Guenter Verheugen, the guy who got mobile phone manufacturers to adopt MicroUSB as the universal standard for charging/connectivity.

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xVjJw TIL Eighty percent of babies in Nigeria receive pre-chewed food, as do a quarter of infants in Gabon. Ethnographers have documented premastication on every continent and in every type of society from hunter-gatherers to farmers
OyKX TIL English is the only language to capitalize the first-person pronoun “I”
LEw9 TIL that there is a sport called ‘chess boxing’, combining the two in alternating rounds.
gb9A TIL the US navy simulated a naval battle against the Iranian navy and lost… Badly.
xVBA0 TIL the 5th Governor of California, John Weller, was anti-slavery, wanting to use his power to eliminate it. The 6th Governor, lasted only 5 days in office, before resigning. The 7th Governor, John Downey, was pro-slavery, owning upwards of 25 slaves at one time.