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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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kOvW1 TIL that soccer player Didier Drogba and his teammates helped stop a civil war in their native Ivory Coast by asking both sides to stop fighting.
BrYD TIL in England, there is a ‘Chap Olympiad’ where contestants compete in events like Umbrella Jousting and Shouting at Foreigners.
e0XQD TIL In 1966 the Spanish army built an enormous cemetery in Burgos for the final scene of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. The graveyard now hosts 4,500 graves bearing the names of the living people who each donated €15 towards the 2018 restoration of the cemetery to its original movie set condition.
VMpek TIL: The Wizard of Oz received one negative review, from the New Yorker, whose film critic despised the film's "Vulgarity [of] raw, eye-straining Technicolor" and "Singer Midgets"
4ba TIL there is no such thing as canola, and the name canola comes from Canadian Oil Low Acid.