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TIL Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has ruled that chess is forbidden in Islam, saying it encourages gambling and is a waste of time.

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69AQZ TIL that Northeast Greenland National Park holds the title as the world's largest park. If it were a country, it would rank as the 29th largest by land area.
k6D5 TIL 7 time Olympic Medalist Eero Mäntyranta had a gene mutation that allowed him to carry 50% more oxygen in his body.
5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency
Pdme TIL: When adjusting for inflation, John D Rockefeller is the richest man in history with a net worth of 10 times that of Bill Gates.
ewl6 TIL that Elvis had an identical twin who died at birth.