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TIL Chess Masters and Grand Masters often supplement their incomes by teaching via Skype.

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5VVRQ TIL there is an owl that nests underground. The burrowing owl usually takes holes dug by other animals to nest but also can dig their own.
D1xpe TIL that Area 51 wasn't confirmed to actually exist by the US Government until 2013.
ZvMB TIL after a wave of plane hijackers demanded passage to Cuba in the 1960s, the FAA considered building a fake Havana airport in Florida. US agents would wait for the plane to land and arrest the unsuspecting hijackers.
Wk88o TIL the role of Hannibal Lecter was turned down by Sean Connery, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro & others. Silence of the Lambs would go on to be the 3rd film in history to win all "Big 5" Academy Awards & upon release in 1991 on VHS, became the most rented film in the United States.
AZal TIL that on June 28, 2009 Stephen Hawking threw a party for time-travelers. He announced the party the day after it happened, and according to Hawking, no one came.