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TIL Ivan the Terrible died during a game of chess

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78WZO TIL that people with a rare genetic disorder called Xerodermia pigmentosum cannot sustain ultraviolet light. So, if exposed to the sun, they will get a severe sunburn. These people also face freckling, dry skin, and changes in skin pigmentation. They are a high risk group for skin cancer.
MeX98 TIL Yves Volel was Anderson Cooper’s math teacher. Volel was a Haitian activist and political leader who fled Haiti in '65 and became a U.S. math teacher. When he returned to Haiti to run for president in ’87, he was assassinated.
VPBG TIL that Exercise Tiger, a US rehearsal for the D-Day landings in 1944, claimed the lives of at least 749 US soldiers, after a live-fire artillery salvo accidentally hit troops landing on the beaches, and subsequent attacks by German E-boats sank two US ships, and damaged a further 2.
mkQx TIL starting in 1938, GM bought out the public transportation in many Californian cities, including Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego) and ran it to the ground so people would switch to private transportation.
epMvJ TIL 92% of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels have skull malformations that squish part of their brain into their spinal column.