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TIL that chess grandmaster and concert pianist Mark Taimanov became the father of twins at 78

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GYwx7 TIL Arctic is not continent, but just region, because it's basically ice floating on water, not landmass like Antarctic
ZpAA4 TIL The Woodworth Personal Data Sheet is cited as the first personality test. Developed during the First World War the test was first published in 1919. The test consists of 116 yes/no questions with some modern personality test questions still tracing back to the first ever test.
lorv1 TIL of highway robbery. 50 k/31 miles of highway was stolen, with over 7000 concrete slabs dismantled and sold for private profit by an official in Russia's Komi region
QNR9e TIL The 1st episode of All in the Family began by warning "The program you are about to see is All in the Family. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices, and concerns. By making them a source of laughter, we hope to show, in a mature fashion, just how absurd they are.”
lR7 TIL Henry Ford built a utopian worker city in the Amazon rainforest to harvest rubber, and the Amazon natives who worked there couldn’t drink, they were forced to square-dance, and sometimes they had knife-fights over the scarce food. It was called ‘Fordlandia.’