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TIL the general who opened Guantanamo prison now wants it to be closed

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9YXK7 TIL the ice on a hockey rink is painted white to make it easier to see the puck
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W7YBN TIL that early in Edgar Allen Poe's writing career, he published an essay exposing a fake chess-playing automaton that was actually operated by a chess master hidden inside. The essay employs a method of deduction called 'ratiocination' which is used by C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective.