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TIL: Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth

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MJwA TIL 988 million positions can be achieved in the first four moves from both sides in chess.
8eQe8 TIL that Sugar Ray Robinson had won all but one of his previous 132 fights, when he was defeated by unknown British boxer Randolph Turpin in 1951. Turpin became the first Brit to hold the middleweight championship since 1891
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KY6nE TIL that during a meeting between Grover Cleveland and James Roosevelt, Cleveland said to Roosevelt's accompanying son, Franklin, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you; that you may never be president of the United States.” The young Franklin Roosevelt became President 45 years later.
XYb6 TIL there is a galaxy-eating fireball 3 MILLION lightyears in diameter and hotter than the center of our Sun out there.