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TIL that some spanish teams are called 'Real' because the title has been bestowed on them by the spanish royal family, it's a patronage that allows a team to use the 'Real' prefix.

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rN0X0 TIL: There was obesity in the Middle Ages, but the rich were expected to restrain themselves as fat people can't become knights. However, Sancho I was a morbidly obese king who weighed 240 kg and couldn't wield a sword, bed his wife, or walk. He was eventually expelled as he was too obese to rule.
4kPkR TIL that the Mechanical Turk was an unbeatable chess machine, supposedly. It travelled the world and beat everyone. A century later, the son of the owner confessed that the Turk was really just a chessmaster hidden inside a box.
YpB0x TIL in complete darkness we see a specific color called "Eigengrau" that's a form of dark gray
gMXPW TIL Quebec "unofficially" got rid of Slavery in 1798, 35 years before it was abolished, because the Chief of Justice couldn't find any laws to punish an escaped slave named Charlotte who refused to return to her master- so he set her free. Other slaves found out and started doing the same thing.
GYyn1 TIL Denmark, due to high prices from the 1973 oil crisis, had car free Sundays from November 1973 to February 1974, during which highways were used only by cyclists and roller skaters.