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TIL that in China it’s disrespectful to name your children after your relatives because you’ll spend much of your life talking down to a child with the same name as someone you should be respecting.

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d8ERj TIL that chess players can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament. Based on "breathing rates, blood pressure, and muscle contractions, top players' stress responses to chess are similar to what elite athletes experience."
4Jwb TIL that MIT students found out that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets from Massachusetts’ Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. In 5 years they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
nWKD7 TIL that under New York City, on the lower concourse of Grand Central Station, there’s a windowless, 440-seat oyster and seafood bar that has been serving customers since the terminal’s opening in 1913. Except for brief closures for a fire in 1997 and COVID-19 it has operated continuously.
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