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TIL Google will fight to keep sites like The Pirate Bay available in the USA.

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E1aDx TIL that there was an actual person nicknamed the'Drift King', who popularised drifting after he started doing so on non-drifting racing events. He has publicly stated that he started drifting to keep his audience excited and because he was bored of winning all the time and has won Le Mans twice.
wLRdJ TIL the human eye with transmits data at roughly the same rate as an Ethernet connection
X0QRr TIL that UPS founder James E. Casey wanted yellow vehicles, but a partner said they’d be hard to keep clean. They chose Pullman Brown instead - a colour that hides dirt, mud, and grime, and is still used on UPS trucks today.
jN0bR TIL Robert Propst, inventor of modern day Cubicles in 1968, called them “monolithic insanity” before he died in 2000.
x6Al1 TIL the Treasury Dept. official in charge of the money laundering investigation of Sothebys, and the hi-value art market, was named Scott Rembrandt.