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TIL When Bill Gates first showed off Windows 98’s ability to use Universal Serial Bus (USB) to connect a scanner while the computer was still running, something revolutionary at the time, the computer crashed.He joked, “That’s why we’re not shipping it yet.”

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788BO TIL in 1918 photographer Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio into a "living portrait" of President Woodrow Wilson. Mole & Thomas created many other living portraits of other famous figures in the years which followed at different military bases around the US.
DQQxV Til of the Beagle Brigade - a team of beagles and their handles whose role is to protect the United States by inspecting luggage that may contain illegal agricultural products and averages over 75,000 seizures annually.
6m9w TIL that the Russian fighter jet, Su-34, comes equipped with a toilet and a kitchen.
e0Qvk TIL that the atomic bombs were almost dropped on Japan by British Avro Lancaster bombers. Hap Arnold, head of USAAF, insisted that an American plane be used, and the B-29 was modified to accept the huge nuclear devices.
4XlX TIL oral, date, same-sex, and male rape is not considered rape by the FBI