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TIL Checkless Chess is a variant of chess where check is illegal unless it is checkmate

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78BnP TIL the average silverback gorilla can lift more than 10x its body weight. Meanwhile I’m over here struggling with a Costco water pack.
9pOM TIL Bighorn Sheep will kick each other in the balls as a challenge to another ram.
Y7OGA TIL of Alice Kober, who helped decipher an ancient script known as Linear B. Over 20 years, she meticulously recorded her research in a collection of 180,000 index cards. The script was deciphered in 1952, shortly after her death. It remains the only Bronze Age Aegean script that is readable now.
YpvrA TIL: the guy who played the Nazi leader in Casablanca was also the inspiration for the Joker and a solid dude. Conrad Veidt was a star of German cinema who was fervently anti-Nazi. He moved to America with his jewish wife to create films to convince the US to join the war against the Axis.
W7vQL TIL in the summer of 1977, New Yorkers turned the surrounding area around the Twin Towers into a makeshift beach using dirt excavated for the construction of the original World Trade Center.