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TIL the game Chinese Checkers is neither Chinese nor Checkers

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VGAZ TIL that the combined reports of 40 years of use by the extreme sports underground, LSD can increase your reflex time to lightning speed, improve your balance to the point of perfection, increase your concentration until you experience “tunnel vision,” and make you impervious to weakness or pain.
pdPp TIL that when the Big Bang theory was first presented, most scientists rejected it for sounding too religious.
16XNd TIL that in 1786, Louisiana passed the “tignon law,” forcing mixed‑race and Black women (including former slaves) to cover their hair but many turned the headscarf into a fashion statement
E4Op TIL Lark Voorhies (Lisa Turtle from Saved By The Bell) has written an e-book on the creation of life where nearly every word is separated by a comma, and which appears to be the unreadable ramblings of someone who’s clearly mentally ill.
yDbv TIL that in the early Roman Republic, when the lower class got fed up they all left the city until the upper class was willing to negotiate