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TIL: Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer invented a chess variation which randomized the starting positions of the home row pieces to reward creativity over memorization.

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LkprV TIL Nurkhon Yuldashkojayeva was one of first 23 Uzbek dancers to perform unveiled on stage in 1923. In 2 months, aged 16, she was killed by her brother in honor-killing. The statue was built in 1967 to symbolize women's freedom but destroyed after Uzbekistan's independence in 1991 as being immoral.
NZlb TIL If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple.
8aKBa TIL that people would have sex in graveyards to “laugh in the face of death”, during the Black Death. It became illegal and people were threatened with excommunication. It was thought that sexual immorality caused the plague, so prostitution and adultery were outlawed.
9Gy6 TIL that Abraham Lincoln was challenged to, and accepted a duel. It ended abruptly due to Lincoln’s height intimidating his opponent.
aKLN TIL that Ultra-pasteurized milks like Organic Horizon and Stonyfield do not need to be refrigerated. They are put into the cooling section at the store cause People don’t trust unrefrigerated milk especially in the US.