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TIL that Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany
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TIL Denise Richards and Neve Campbell shared a pitcher of margaritas together before filming their swimming pool kissing scene in Wild Things. It was the first time either of them had ever kissed another girl.
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TIL you're supposed to hold the wine glass by the stem so your body heat doesn't change the temperature and flavor of the wine.
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TIL that some of the stones used in the creation of Stonehenge were bluestones from the Preseli Hills in western Wales and may have been chosen for their acoustic properties.
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TIL that Pacific Bell spent $40 million to put its employees through a training program based on the teachings of Russian mystic George Gurdjieff—to supposedly open their eyes to a "higher-level" consciousness. The program was halted after the Californian utility regulator launched a public inquiry.
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TIL that Chien-Shiung Wu, a Chinese-American physicist, made critical contributions to the Manhattan Project during World War 2. Her experiments disproving the law of conservation of parity in weak nuclear interactions, known as the "Wu experiment," earned her the nickname "the First Lady of Physics