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TIL Ivan the Terrible died during a game of chess
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TIL there is such a thing as fried Coca Cola
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TIL that a 14 year old black boy was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955.
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TIL that the longest professional tennis match was 11 hours and 5 minutes.
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TIL that Erik The Red who discovered Greenland, called it Greenland in spite of its ice cover, because people would be attracted to go there if it had a favorable name, and used it as a trick to lure settlers to Greenland
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TIL That as a child, Joseph Stalin was nicknamed “Pocky” by his peers because of the scars left over from contracting smallpox.