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TIL Bobby Fischer developed a variant of chess where the starting positions were randomized because he thought too many top level players were simply memorizing opening positions

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b9EP4 TIL there is ice on the surface of Mercury despite it being the closest planet to the sun in our solar system and therefore one of the hottest
kBrE TIL the Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets
Z8pMo TIL that during WWII the US Navy trained aircraft carrier pilots on Lake Michigan
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R7858 TIL that the cave art in European caves was made by Neandertals and not by early humans