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TIL Several computer algorithms have named Bobby Fischer the best chess player in history. Years after his retirement Bobby played a grandmaster at the height of his career. He said Bobby appeared bored and effortlessly beat him 17 times in a row. "He was too good. There was no use in playing him"

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VMMEp TIL while on the run, Richard McNair, was staying at a motel and upon returning to his room he saw a SWAT team surrounding the building and decided to drive off, but later found out that the SWAT team was responding to a hostage situation, so he drove back and recorded the standoff with a camera.
rRYjy TIL broccoli is man made. Even though it was made over 2000 years ago. By farmers breeding different types of cabbage
0wdvM To conform to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the U.S. must cull its deployed nuclear strategic warheads by roughly 700. Once the National Nuclear Security Administration’s scientists inspect each warhead to determine the best way to take it apart, it goes to Pantex Plant in Texas, the only facility cleared to disassemble nukes.
Xp6E TIL the Robertson Boys(from ‘Duck Dynasty’) were golf-playing, clean-shaven, and dressed in polos and khakis before they became famous.
Z8rao TIL bladeless fans work by squeezing air & accelerating it. Air is forced out through slits, & clings to the curved aerofoil surfaces. This means surrounding air pulled along, too. The air flow becomes about 15 times greater than the air taken in.