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TIL that Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany

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4Xpva TIL that the paragraph from "Cambridge University" that you can read despite the "jumbled" order of the letters isn't so jumbled, wasn't from Cambridge, the "researcher" doesn't exist, and the supposed effect doesn't really work.
6EPlw TIL when Emperor Honorius was told about the fall of Rome he "cried out," thinking his favorite chicken, named Roma, had died. On hearing that it was instead the city Rome that had fallen, Honorius breathed a sigh of relief.
Y9xx TIL The Chinese government “encouraged” the country’s tallest female basketball player to marry the country’s tallest man. Their child was Yao Ming.
6EjKl TIL, "Nosferatu" (1922) was nearly deleted from history because of copyright infringement
XE7P8 TIL in 1900 three lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappeared from the lighthouse on Eilian Mor, an island north of Scotland. Their logbook indicated they were frightened by a storm that hit on December 12th, but all other reports in the area stated the weather was clear that day