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TIL Beth seeing the chess board before going to sleep in The Queen's Gambit is actually a common phenomena with chess players attributed to The Tetris Effect

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9YYZ6 TIL that in 1914, four empires claimed to be successors to the Roman Empire; the German Empire, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Italian Empire. All of them collapsed because of WW1 except for the Italian Empire, leaving them as the only empire to claim succession from the Roman Empire.
e0DyL TIL that after the outbreak of the First World War Germany didn't stop the organization of the 1916 Olympic games because no one expected the war to continue for several years.
Mb6W TIL There’s a Russian superstition that if there’s a fly in the room, you shouldn’t say anything that’s secret because flys are all spys for Baba Yaga (the witch that lives in the woods). Its an old pagan superstition from before the communist revolution.
wLBXM TIL Porn viewers are more likely to see women as equals than non-viewers
XEOZ6 TIL the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite losing that much material, it has only lost about 0.05% of it's original mass over the past 4.5 billion years.