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TIL Guy Fieri Fed 5,000 Fire Evacuees Per Day during the 2017 Santa Rosa Wildfires

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b6mw4 TIL: Supercomputers know how to solve EVERY chess ending that has seven pieces or fewer remaining, regardless of position, makeup of the remaining pieces, or possible moves. This information, known as endgame tablebase, is currently 18.4 terabytes in size.
9gxM TIL Ben Franklin’s brother would not print any of 16-year-old Ben’s letters at the newspaper he published, so Ben invented a pseudonym, the widow Mrs. Silence Dogood. Readers thought she was a charming woman and several offered to marry her.
yQXKp TIL of the kidnapping of journalist David Rohde, who escaped with another captive after eight months by tiring out their captors with repeated games of checkers.
GYyxQ TIL that Banksy once sold originals of his artwork for $60 each from a street stall in NYC. Not knowing the truth, the public largely ignored the art. Only a few people bought them, and they’re now worth a fortune.
rNdN0 TIL the word Pope comes from the Greek word πάπας (papas), best translated into English as "daddy"