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TIL that there are well over a dozen different region-specific styles of BBQ food in the US

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LkMMZ TIL Margrethe II, the queen of Denmark, felt compelled to draw illustrations for The Lord of the Rings in the 70s and sent them to Tolkien himself. He noted her style was quite similar to his own. Her drawings were used as a basis for the illustrations in the Danish translation of the books.
pK7A TIL in 1996, Mike Tyson paid an aide $300,000 whose sole function was to dress in fatigues and shout ‘guerrilla warfare’ at press conferences
J1JXj TIL that the Hong Kong Jockey Club, which runs horse races in Hong Kong, is the city's biggest single taxpayer, having paid $28.6 billion in 2022, equal to $3,800 for every man, woman, and child in the region.
4XMwa TIL: Traditional chess engines – rely on thousands of rules and heuristics handcrafted by strong human players that try to account for every eventuality in a game. AlphaZero takes a totally different approach, replacing these hand-crafted rules with a deep neural network .
jEXM TIL that the ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot