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TIL about "Chess Boxing", a hybrid that combines a cerebral board game and a physical sport. To take home the glory, players must coerce their opponent into a knockout or batter them into checkmate.

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NB68 TIL Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (Lucy and Ricky on “I Love Lucy”) not only saved “Star Trek” from cancellation in 1966, but also helped produce it.
Wyd4 TIL that Deaf people experience a “tip of the fingers” phenomenon in sign language, just as hearing persons describe a word being on the “tip of their tongue”
wJGM TIL that Marie Curie’s notebook has to be kept in a lead-lined box, and won’t be safe to handle for another 1,601 years. If you want to visit some of her other person items, you have to sign a liability waiver.
DQ7oJ Today I learned Forest Gump was based off a book.
wLKZJ TIL German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine once wrote in a play from 1821, "Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." Over a century later, copies of Heine's books were among the many burned in Berlin's Opernplatz.