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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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7lEL TIL our emotions and states of mind are influenced, and even produced, by the nerves and bacteria in our guts.
9YW9G TIL lobsters have evolved to pee at each other to express sexual interest, and like to pee during sex. This process begins with the female basically drugging the male with her own urine.
DXmV TIL that tough on crime politician, Ernie Preate, was sentenced to prison himself. When he first lined up for diner “It was just a sea of black faces,” Preate remembers “I said to myself, ‘Oh, my God, I helped create this.’”
698mW TIL That Greenland's National Park (Northeast Greenland National Park) is bigger than 166 of the world's 195 countries and has fewer than 500 visitors annually
BgM0L TIL that 75% of the images in Ikea's product catalogue were computer generated...in 2014