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TIL George Washinton’s adopted son was the father-in-law of Confederate General Robert E. Lee

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bPPa TIL that in MAY 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. After 15 years, it was discovered that the critical move made by Deep Blue was due to a bug in its software.
l77K7 TIL of Sakoku, the foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for a period of 265 years.
W7opX TIL Steve Urkel was intended to be a one-off character on the sitcom Family Matters. Jaleel White (Urkel), got into an altercation with Jo Marie Payton (Harriet), causing Jo Marie to leave the show, which ended after that season.
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