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TIL Rhydon was the first pokémon to ever be programmed, hence the numerous Rhydon statues scattered across Kanto in the original games.

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XEPgE TIL that in 2007, researchers warned about the risks of a SARS-CoV epidemy due to the consumption of bat meat in China
OoO1L TIL in the popular two-player strategy board game, Chess, if a pawn reaches the other end of the board it can turn into either a queen/knight/bishop or rook.
oRR1E TIL Brian O'Leary wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the physical properties of the Martian surface and was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in 1967 for a potential manned Mars mission when it was still in NASA's program plan
x6Pdo TIL: Vladimir Lenin's body is preserved and on display
E1KLp TIL a man's testicles produce over 10 million new sperm cells each day, enough to repopulate the entire planet in only six months.