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Today I learned how castling in chess 960 works, and it looks hilarious

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dNp7 TIL The simple act of a surgical team stopping to answer a set of 19 questions such as “Do we have the right patient?” and “What operation are we performing?” has been proven to reduce deaths by more than 40% and complications by one third.
6EEM8 TIL mixing diet soda with alcohol will get you drunker than using a sugar-based option.
oKPK TIL regular condoms are too big for men of ALL nationalities.. not just Indian men as the 2006 BBC News article says
ANYAx TIL that the first commercially successful video game - an Atari Pong cabinet at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale California in 1972 - got a complait for beeing "broken" when it was jammed out of order with quarters due to its unexpected popularity
oB4dY TIL there are only around 120 anonymous Michelin restaurant inspectors in the world. They spend 3 out of every 4 weeks on the road, and must vacate a region for 10 years if they think a restaurant suspects their identity.