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TIL that the 1977 Atari 2600 beat ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot at a game of chess

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1ZpW TIL the 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
KYm99 TIL Loblaws and George Weston Limited agreed to pay $500 million to settle the bread price-fixing lawsuit in Canada.
0o5 TIL the very first US Congress passed, and George Washington signed into law, a health insurance mandate.
Vo60 TIL that today is the 100 year anniversary the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She was also the first person to free-fall (jump without a static line), and is credited for the term ‘rip cord’ when she got tangled during a static line jump and had to cut herself free during a jump.
P6vL TIL when TWA Flight 1 crashed into a mountain in 1936, surviving flight attendant Nellie Granger followed telephone wires for 4 miles to get help and call the TWA office and notify them of the crash. Nobody realized that the plane had crashed before the call. She then walked back with help.