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TIL there are more variations in the game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

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GAae1 TIL Japanese soldiers bayonetted children in Nanking, practiced bayonet charges on live prisoners.
aGOy TIL about the Salt Water Buffalo who were introduced to Newfoundland as a potential new species for meat and hide. All but 1 died as they discovered the best tasting grass was at the edge of cliffs and inevitably fell to their deaths
kOg4B TIL that the USSR successfully used a 30 kilotons nuclear bomb to put out a burning gas well in Uzbekistan in 1966
AN97n TIL Amazon packages are delivered to U.S. aircraft carriers.
awry TIL Jupiter is shrinking by about 2 cm each year because the planet radiates more heat than it receives from the Sun.