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TIL Connect Four is a solved game. The first player can always win by playing the right moves.

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4XWGb TIL about Maximilian I, the younger brother of Franz- Josef, the only Hapsburg monarch of Mexico. During the Franco-Mexican war, Napoleon III gave Maximilian a huge chunk of Mexico in 1864 and Maximilian made a lot of liberal reforms at the time. He was executed 3 years later.
v1RmB TIL the song 'Die Eier Von Satan' by Tool is just a cookie recipe read very aggressively auf Duetsche.
9wO6p TIL The first recorded divorce case in America was granted to Anne Clarke whose husband cheated and abandoned her
xVyx7 TIL that during the Watergate scandal, Martha Mitchel (then wife of Nixon's AG) was kidnapped, beaten and forcibly sedated by her husband's security detail to keep her from speaking to reporters
R7Oja TIL there is a disgusting food museum in Berlin which shows disgusting dished from all around the world. They even have a taste bar for visitors to try some of them!