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TIL - There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.

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KO1G6 TIL Joe Francis, creator of Girls Gone Wild as seen in late night 90's infomercials, has since been convicted of false imprisonment, child abuse, and prostitution.
ZaNp TIL Frankenstein was written due to a volcanic eruption. Because of all the ash in the sky, Mary Shelley and her friends would stay indoors and have contests of who could write the scariest stories. Frankenstein was the scariest.
Jx44 TIL that the planet Uranus was discovered before the continent of Antarctica
yQ7gJ TIL about the only combat casualties to occur on U.S. soil during World War II. It occurred on May 5, 1945 in rural Oregon when a Japanese high altitude balloon bomb was discovered by a group of picnic goers. One of the them touched the bomb and it detonated killing 6.
vL6K TIL In 2010 Kodak discontinued the famed Kodachrome film. The last roll was shot by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry best known for his portrait ‘Afghan Girl’. The last 36 slides captured images around New York and a tribe in India on the verge of extinction.