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TIL that Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany

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0XpL TIL in 1982,a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin was beaten to death by Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nit because they were out of work due to competition from Japanese auto-makers. In the end, they were sentenced to three years probation and a $3000 fine.
Y7DZP TIL that the band Phish hosted 80,000 people, the largest on earth to usher in the new millennium, for New Years 2000 at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in Florida
yQJEw TIL Alan Turing proposed gin (the alcohol) as a medium in which to store data in a computer
0wbbL TIL a rifleman named Jaswant Singh along with two others fought for3 days and cause a casualty of 300 in the Indo-Sino war of 1962.
VlvG TIL The Japanese Giant Hornet is woven from the fabric of nightmares: It’s the size of your thumb and sprays flesh-melting poison in your eyes that also has a pheromone cocktail in it that’ll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you to death