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TIL Garry Kasparov played the world at a game of chess online, where over 50,000 different people from over 75 countries voted on the best move. Kasparov won.

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JYBAk TIL of RAF pilot Cyril Barton. During a raid over Germany, his plane was strafed repeatedly causing three of his crew to bail out. He dropped the bomb himself, flew the heavily damaged bomber home, crashed landed it and saved the lives of everyone onboard. He however would succumb to his injuries.
OGZe1 TIL Larry David quit his writing job at SNL in the first season, only to show up to work two days later acting as though nothing had happened.
oB6pE TIL a child molester voluntarily castrated himself to get rid of his urges and be freed from prison
N7XN1 TIL Darkthrone drummer and black metal legend, Fenriz, was elected as a councilman in Norway in 2015. Thinking he wouldn't have to do anything, his campaign was a picture of him holding his cat that said, "Don't vote for me".
WDw9 TIL that when German engineers were developing the MP3 file format, they used Suzanne Vega’s a capella song “Tom’s Diner” to test their creation, checking for loss of fidelity. She is now unofficially known as the “Mother of The MP3”