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TIL that Marion Tinsley, the greatest checkers player of all time, only lost 7 games in 45 years, 2 of which were against a computer. After he retired, it was said that the world champion title would be “worthless as long as he was alive”

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R7pm6 TIL the murder rate in the capital of Venezuela is so high that each year 0.1% of the population is murdered
x0NB TIL that U.S. Marine Smedley Butler, one of the most decorated servicemen in American history, was a staunch critic of U.S. military endeavors, including his his own participation, saying “In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
X0ZpP TIL Vanessa Carlton’s song A Thousand Miles is most likely about Glenn Howerton.
0dkXv TIL of the Aztec “Curse of One Rabbit”, where the first year (One Rabbit) of the 52 year calendar cycle was associated with famine and catastrophe. Incredibly, one study suggested a “real climatic origin”, with 10 of the 13 years having a famine, including one of the worst in world prehistory.
8MkZ TIL that Band of Brothers was the most expensive miniseries ever with a production cost of $125 million until it’s sister series The Pacific was released in 2010.