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TIL: Dick Cheney was President of the United States for over 2 hours in 2002

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mxAMx TIL that the Cornish language became extinct but is now being revived by a growing number of enthusiasts.
LkD6p TIL the current chess grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, intentionally plays non-book "inaccuracies" during opening (moves he knows aren't the best) to force the game into a non-book position ASAP so his opponents will have to think for themselves instead of going by memorised opening theory
aYkA TIL: New Zealand’s prime minister John Key went to a vet to see if he was a human and not a shape shifting lizard.
d8PK7 TIL that Klaus Kinski was so difficult to work with during the filming of "Aguirre" that Werner Herzog had to threaten to shoot him dead if he tried to leave the set.
9x4r TIL from a declassified US DOD document titled ‘Operation Northwoods’ that the DOD wanted to blow up a US Navy ship, down a civilian airliner, crash John Glenn’s spaceship, fake an attack on Guantanamo and stage communist terror campaigns to provide justification for a US military invasion of Cuba.