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TIL only two people won $1 million on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader: the superintendent of Georgia public schools, and a Nobel Prize winner in physics

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d6Q7 TIL Al-Qaeda initially planned to fly hijacked jets into nuclear installations, rather than the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They had decided against the attack on nuclear power plants “for the moment” because of fears it could “get out of control”.
JR91 TIL that Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs sacrificed money and stayed in college for four years instead of going directly to the NBA because in her last days, his dying mother made him promise to graduate college with a degree.
BgXLD TIL "All Quiet on the Western Front" was banned in Nazi Germany because it protrayed the fultility of war (during WWI) and was deemed counterproductive to the German rearmament program prior to WWII.
awjLA TIL that a lot of cheeses aren't vegetarian because Rennet - the enzymes that separate milk into curds and whey - is primarily made from ground-up calf stomach
P1xQE TIL Checkless Chess is a variant of chess where check is illegal unless it is checkmate