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TIL that unlike chess, professional go players overwhelmingly defeat the best computers

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JYjvQ TIL Alabama did not repeal its ban on interracial marriage until 2000. 40% of people voted against the repeal.
mkVR TIL: Getting a blood transfusion won’t change your DNA and an episode of M.A.S.H. addressed this issue in which they tricked a racist soldier to think that he had turned black after getting blood from a black donor.
PXMV TIL that in the 1950’s, CIA members feared being unknowingly dosed by LSD as it had become “something of an occupational hazard.”
wLYWo TIL that technically there is no city named Tokyo. Tokyo is a prefecture, something like a state, and not a city. Also, there is no city named Tokyo inside of Tokyo Prefecture.
xVEao TIL that in one night in 1943, the Danish Resistance organized the escape of over 90% of Denmarks Jews to Sweden. That means around 7000 of Denmarks Jews escaped, with only about 500 being captured