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TIL Chess is a compulsory class for students in Armenia. Chess being popular since Soviet times, Armenia now has one of the highest Chess Grandmasters per capita in the world.

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4dow TIL in the 70’s gay men used a complex system of color-coded handkerchiefs to tell other gay men what kind of sex they were seeking. Depending on color and the pocket it was sticking out of, they described what you were willing to do and whether you were a top or bottom.
p8b5e TIL that of Miami and Tampa are 2 of the 3 major cities in the United States to never have reached 100 degrees officially.
8eL TIL Ben Stein ardently opposes evolution, going so far to call it “a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies.”
gMMx8 Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time — are a big deal in the world of science. Here's a video that helps explain how they work.
Krxa TIL Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief who executed a suspected Viet Cong officer in the now world famous picture taken by Eddie Adams, moved to the US and opened a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C.