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TIL Thomas Jefferson, USA's Third President, developed the first Swivel Chair - and arguably the first modern office chair

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Q86 TIL Kim Ung-yong understood algebra at age 3, by the time he was 2 could speak 4 languages fluently, started attending university at age 4 and graduated at age 8, and has the highest I.Q. (210) in the world
4XyQw TIL of the Chagossians, an ethnic group native to the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. In the 1970s, all of them were ethnically cleansed in able to build a US military base. In 2016, they were denied the right to return after a 45-year legal dispute.
Eg070 TIL That Pop Warner had once sewn elastic bands on his teams jerseys so that they could hide the ball inside of them during his team's games.
xV0Ro TIL that the "Kio, Kio" chant in the last line of Old Town Road's intro (right before the first verse) refers to YoungKio, the producer of the beat. He also makes an appearance in the music video.
R5pD4 TIL about Jeanne de Clisson, a noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by the French King Philip VI. She crossed the English Channel targeting French ships. It was her practice to leave at least one sailor alive to carry her message of vengeance.