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TIL Male chess grandmasters outnumber female chess grandmasters fifty-to-one.

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loBpK TIL that there is a German word, verschlimmbessern, to define the act of making something worse in a failed attempt to improve a situation, e.g. trying to dislodge a ball stuck in a tree by throwing another ball at it - which subsequently also gets stuck.
4kgXN TIL The UK's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 has a special provision for Peter Pan
Wk8kA TIL that no significant nutritional differences exist between foods prepared by conventional and microwave methods.
e0PV4 TIL about an Indian maharaja who legally adopted 1000 Ukrainian children orphaned by WW2. He took them to India, kept them safe and brought in Ukrainian teachers to educate them, all using his own money.
yQoMJ TIL John Lennon and Yoko Ono visited an astrologer Who told them John would be shot and die on an island. So disturbed were they that they cancelled their extended Greek Isles vacation. Ten years later he died ... on Manhattan island.