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TIL at the 1863 World Checkers Championship, every game of the 40-game series ended in a draw. 21 of the 40 games were exactly the same, move by move.

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R7MG1 TIL the Occam's razor isn't the only philosophical razor, and there even is one called Newton's flaming laser sword which states "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating"
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9R67 TIL, there is no definitive reason why the keypad arrangement is different for a telephone and a calculator/computer