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TIL Christopher Lee was the only person involved with the Lord of the Rings films to have actually met Tolkien

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nepPr TIL There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe, It is called the Shannon Number.
0mgA TIL Gandhi waves around nukes in Civilization because a glitch in Civ 1 (where Gandhi’s aggressive stat, set at 1, became negative upon completion of democracy) and since -1 was not a stat the game reverted it to the maximum aggressive stat, and that’s how Gandhi became a warmonger.
9aWX TIL that the author of The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell, was just 19 when he wrote the book in 1969. He later disavowed the violent ideology that he advocated in the book and wished to have the book “quickly and quietly go out of print”. He passed away in July 2016.
m1xlR TIL a woman from IN named Linda Darby murdered her husband by poisoning, shooting, and burning his body 1970. Two years into a life sentence, she escaped prison and began a quiet life as Linda McElroy in TN, evading capture for 35 years before being caught again and sent back to prison in 2007.
VMx9D TIL Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow drowned when weighed down by $2,000 of gold hidden in her underclothes