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

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oR5j7 TIL an office building in midtown New York sold for $8.5M last year, 97.5% less than what it last sold for: $332 million in 2006.
5YDZp TIL about the Thibodaux Massacre, a racial attack mounted by white paramilitary groups in Thibodaux, Louisiana from November 22-25 1887. As many as 300 overall were killed, wounded or missing, making it one of the most violent labor disputes in U.S. history.
mKYM TIL that a female humpback whale, near drowning, was freed by divers from a tangle of crab pots … then thanked them all, one at a time.
E1VDP TIL Native Americans domesticated turkeys
Bry TIL that the United Arab Emirates donated a laptop to every high school student in Joplin, Missouri, after the city had been devastated by a tornado.