Post * b9jYN — Curious Curator

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TIL about Shogi, a variant of Chess, which itself has another variant Dai Shogi, where you had to capture the opponent's king and, if present, the prince, which counts as a second king.

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4Xrvb TIL Karl Malone had a child when he was 20, and the mother was 13

ADKLn TIL Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones fouhgt his last naval battles in the area of present-day Ukraine

yQyXl TIL that the most prolific mathematician in history, Paul Erdos, took amphetamines for the last 30 years of his life to fuel 18 hour working days. Once he was challenged to stay off the Benzedrine for a month - he succeeded but said “Mathematics has now been set back a whole month.”

OoJXX TIL that California is named after a fictional island from a Spanish Chivalry novel, written in 1510 and supposedly located in the Indies.

E1BwV TIL Ada Lovelace is called the world's first computer programmer; She wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.