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

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XbNE TIL Parents who are concerned about how their children’s names may affect them in life can now hire services to name their kids for them. Services have popped up all over the US and Europe, with one Swiss agency charging $29,000 to research and recommend your child’s name.
mx0xv TIL about the Bodo skull: a 600,000 year old early human fossil from Ethiopia. Cut marks on the skull indicate the individual was scalped with stone tools almost immediately after death.
rR8xe TIL Warwick Davis has played MULTIPLE characters in both Harry Potter and Star Wars universes. This has also led him to be the highest grossing supporting actor of all time.
Ey5P TIL not only are there radar detectors, but radar detector-detectors, and even radar detector-detector-detectors
Od96 TIL attacking a parachuter bailing from a distressed aircraft is a war crime