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TIL that after South Korea beat Germany at the FIFA World Cup 2018, ensuring Mexico’s place in the knockout, hundreds of Mexican fans descended on the South Korean embassy in Mexico City to celebrate

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JYG68 TIL Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-born American computer architect who led the Intel team that invented the USB (Universal Serial Bus), regrets not making it reversible. It would have doubled the cost, which was a hard sell at the time, "[b]ut in hindsight, we blew it." He holds 132 patents and counting.
E1bZ0 TIL about the windshield phenomenon. People tend to find fewer insects smashed on the windscreens of their cars now compared to a decade or several decades ago.
KYw54 TIL that Duff McKagan (Guns and Roses), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Jim Matheos (Fates Warning), Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue), Ryan Lewis (Lewis and Macklemore), Sir Mix A Lot, two Nobel Prize Winners, and Bill Gates' mother all went to Roosevelt High School, a public school in Seattle.
6EMEX TIL that when Lumber Baron William E Boeing created the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917 the company depended on designs from their first aeronautical engineer hire, Chinese MIT grad Wong Tsu. He worked for a year with the company before returning to China. He fled to Taiwan when Mao took over China
VMLwD TIL that in the 1920s, Bhagat Singh Thind, an Indian Sikh man, tried to argue to the Supreme Court of the United States that he was "white" on the grounds that anthropologists at that time classified people from India as "caucasian." The Court rejected his argument.