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TIL World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen trolls online chess games in his free time under the name “Dr Drunkenstein”

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4ky5 TIL 35 years after it’s launch, it’s estimated Voyager 1’s power supply still has 76% of its initial capacity.
gMn58 TIL that the Beverly Hills Hotel & Hotel Bel-Air as well as a number of high end luxury hotels are owned by sultan Hassanal Bolkiah whose country will start stoning alleged gay people and adulterers to death in a week.
NXxJ6 TIL In “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991), the skull on the movie poster is actually made of naked women – Salvador Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors.”
lo9mA TIL that turkeys can fly up to 60 miles an hour despite their 20 pound heft. They roost high up in the trees at night, but spend most of their time on the ground, causing the misconception that they are incapable of flight at all.
d8j6j TIL that the phrase "blood is thicker than water" is not what you think it means (at least in its original context)