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TIL 50% of expert chess tournament games end in a draw

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10eD TIL that in the United Kingdom, there exists a satirical political party by the name of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Currently, it holds 7 seats in local governments and its official political position is “Sitting, Facing Forward”.
e0pyk TIL George Washington feared the growing influence of political parties in the US. He thought that it would lead to "the alternate domination" of each party, taking revenge on each other in the form of reactionary political policies and that it would eventually cause the North and South to split.
kOZVg TIL about monster study, a study so heinous that it was not even published and 7 of the orphan children participating in it got $1.2M as compensation for lifelong emotional and psychological scars.
Mr4m TIL the 6th most popular boat name in the U.S. in 1995 was “Wet Dream.”
VMmlQ TIL of Joseph Trombino, a Brinks truck driver who survived the infamous 1981 Brink's robbery perpertrated by the father of current San Francisco District Attornery Chesa Boudin and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, only to die at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.