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TIL Chevy Chase is the name of a town in Maryland, and the comedian Chevy Chase's real first name is Cornelius.

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LkAEV TIL in 1981 Dean Koontz wrote a book "The Eyes of Darkness". The chapter 39 it mentions a Chinese military lab outside of the city of Wuhan, where a deadly virus is invented as part of the country's biological weapons warfare programme. Owing to the lab's location, the virus is named 'Wuhan-400'.
8ar5X TIL that ears of corn generally have an even number of rows, which is usually 16.
J1rek TIL about Peter Hagendorf a German mercenary who fought during the 30 years war and kept a diary. In it he casually describes the death of several of his children, being shot and abducting women.
X0ZaD TIL Due to the similarity between the Irish and Ivory Coast flags, when the Ivory Coast athlete Murielle Ahouré won the 2018 world indoor 60-meter dash, she borrowed an Irish flag from a spectator and reversed it.
5Y6Vp TIL that in medieval Romania there was a little chamber in the grounds of a fortified church in which couples, whi were thinking about divorce were send and locked up to six weeks in order to repair their relationship. Suprisingly it was very effective.