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TIL while struggling to sell stories as a writer, George RR Martin capitalized on the early 1970s chess craze (due to Bobby Fischer's win) and was a tournament director for the Continental Chess Association.

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nWEKP TIL a 2013 survey, involving 1,081 doctors regarding advance end-of-life directives, found that 88.3% said they would choose do-not-resuscitate or "no code" orders for themselves.
gAZW TIL that Liverpool was once the “Second City of The British Empire” and for periods in the 19th century its wealth even eclipsed that of London.
NXejM TIL that the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) is the only airport in the USA and perhaps the world to have a used bookstore: a branch of Renaissance Books.
DOmv TIL CAPTCHA is an acronym: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
e0BJD TIL when Queen Victoria first moved to Buckingham palace, it was dirty and cold as staff were lax and lazy and chimneys smoked so much that fires were dampened down.