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TIL there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Possible Chess Games.

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6KY7 TIL that the physics behind the CGI in the movie Interstellar was so complex that it led to the discovery of the true shape of black holes
N70VM TIL the idea for YouTube arose when one of its founders wanted to see the clip of Janet Jackson's nipple being exposed at the SuperBowl and realized how hard it was to find clips online
vP8VK TIL, On July 26, 1978, the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in Oldham, England
OoZy6 TIL no one could figure out how Ferrari f1 driver Alonso was gaining so much speed on the straights until a video showed him taking his left hand off the wheel to cover a hole in the cockpit, decreasing the drag and downforce by changing airflow. It was then banned.
yQQWJ TIL that the fastest animal in the world relative to body size is a species of mite called the Paratarsotomus macropalpis, the mite can move at a speed of 322 body lengths per second. The equivalent speed for a human running as fast as this mite would be 1,300 mph