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TIL there has never been a time in US history when there were more than six living Presidents

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J1Z58 TIL that chess players do not, in fact, burn an extreme amount of calories during matches
woOvM TIL about John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, a British aristocrat who in 1974 murdered his childrens' nanny and attacked his wife before fleeing in his car that was later found abandoned. He was never seen again and declared legally dead in 1999.
699Om TIL Astronomer George Ellery Hale observed the sun in 1908 through a 60-foot solar telescope and documented the Zeeman effect in a sunspot. Hale’s photograph represented the first magnetic fields discovered outside of Earth
m1DWo TIL about a hypothetical roller coaster called the Euthanasia Coaster. With a 1,600 drop, 220 mph with 7 decreasing loops to maintain a lethal 10g force. All 24 passengers would die with "with elegance and euphoria"
wLmr6 TIL that Leonard Nimoy (known for playing Spock in the Star Trek) published a book "I Am Not Spock" because people often called him Spock IRL, later he gave up and published another book "I Am Spock"