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DQrdV TIL Cuban chess master José Capablanca, one of the world's best players in the 1920s, tried to promote his own variation of chess named "Capablanca Chess", with changes like adding new pieces with unique moves & changing the chessboard size, believing high-level chess was becoming too repetitive.
gv5b TIL slow music playing in a restaurant makes perception of time slow by about 13%, and also makes customers buy up to 40% more drinks than normal
R5kR4 TIL the first chiropractor was a Canadian who claimed he received a message from a ghost
woE0o TIL some zoos give out "Gorrila Glasses" to visitors to prevent Gorrilas from getting aggressive due to prolonged eye contact
oRDYW TIL that the United States bombed Laos with the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years. That adds up to 270 million bombs total, or about 100 bombs per Laotian at the time.