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TIL Of Shannon's number. This number states that the game of chess holds more move possibilities than the entire universe holds atoms.

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b6RRZ TIL Kit Harington is descended from the inventor of the flush toilet. He is also related to King James VI and I, the first King of England and Scotland. And he’s in line to be the 17th Baronet of Ridlington.
WkLPN Europe was colder than the North Pole this week.
VMYy8 TIL that Dorothy Eady believed she was the reincarnated lover of Seti I. She was a successful and respected Egyptologist, who predicted the location of an ancient garden before it was excavated.
ZpPNR TIL that women in Victorian times used dangerous arsenic wafers, creams, and soaps to make their skin fairer and “cure” pimples and blemishes
XEPLQ TIL Michael Moore made a late talk show pilot for Fox in the 90s, which guest Kevin Smith. He also had O.J. Simpson as a guest, his first interview after the trial and the audience booed both Moore and OJ. Fox scrapped the project and never aired the pilot, and the footage was never publicly shown.