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TIL each pawn in chess had a specific name/profession based on its starting position on the board

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D1WnV TIL that the most amount of tornadoes that occur per square mile, is in England mainly between Reading and London (along the River Thames).
GVYJ TIL: incubating premature babies got it’s start as a side show exhibit in Coney Island
EKQV TIL The band “The Who” were banned for life from all Holiday Inns when Keith Moon started a food fight with a 5-tier cake, once the police arrived he stripped to his underwear, jumped into his car, drove it through a fence and left it in the bottom of the Flint Holiday Inn pool.
KZeJ TIL Samuel L. Jackson wanted a cameo appearance on Breaking Bad in which he would walk on to the set of Los Pollos Hermanos, dressed as Nick Fury, completely unannounced as if he were a customer buying chicken from the restaurant.
R5Lp9 TIL that Ramjit Raghav was the oldest father, he had his first child with his wife at age 94, and had a second child at age 96. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 104