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TIL That research has shown that the best strategy for playing the board game "Guess Who?" is to ask narrow questions, rather than broad ones.

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MR8A TIL that Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910
P157w TIL that the punctuation mark ?! is called an 'interrobang,' invented in the 1960s to combine a question mark and exclamation point for rhetorical questions.
m1p1P TIL about the year of the four emperors it was the first civil war of the Roman Empire, during which four emperors ruled in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian.
GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”
rDr1 TIL that pistol dueling was a sport in the 1908 summer Olympics. Contestants used wax bullets and metal masks for safety.