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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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8alGG TIL of Zhang Jing­chuan, a Chinese mountaineer who survived a taliban execution at a 13,000-foot base camp. He knocked an attacker, hid barefoot in his underwear for an hour in a ravine, snuck back in a tent to get a jacket and a satellite phone, hiked to safety and called the local emergency line
nWNX7 TIL that the world's largest collection of flutes (yes, the musical instrument) is held by the US Library of Congress.
W7O6L TIL Japanese government once banned imported skis because "The snow is different in Japan"
BgN5L TIL "Jack & Diane" was supposed to have been about an interracial couple, but Mellencamp was pressured by the label to change itb
6E0J7 TIL of "Freddish" - Mr. Rogers' carefully crafted set of rules for talking to children, designed to keep kids from taking things too literally or becoming unnecessarily scared