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TIL Faustino Oro is an Argentine chess player who became the youngest International Master in history at 10 years, 8 months, and 16 days old.

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o98L TIL there is a DC Comics character named Danny the Street that is a sentient transvestite length of road with the power of teleportation. He travels around the world putting on drag shows for those cast out by society.
MAVK TIL that Texas banned prisoners’ choice of last meal after Lawrence Russell Brewer requested 2 chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, 1 lbs of BBQ, 3 fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream & a slab of peanut butter fudge w/ crushed peanuts and ATE NONE of it
QNVxM TIL Charles Darwin only worked about 4 hours a day. He worked for two 90-minute periods each morning & then one 60-minute period later in the day. Before the latter, he would take an hour nap & go on 2 walks. On this schedule he wrote 19 books including The Descent of Man & On the Origin of Species.
Eg0WV TIL: The display of diamonds in Hollywood films and songs is one of the most successful cases of product placement in marketing history. Diamonds were placed in several Hollywood films; including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Diamonds Are Forever and in songs such as Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.
PY6kO TIL:In 1974 artist Marina Abramović displayed her performance art "Rhythm 0"-Where she stayed still for 6 hours and let guests do what ever they wanted to her with 72 items she had placed on a table. One of the items were a loaded gun. The guests started out gentle but got worse after couple of hrs.