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TIL While playing Chess a female contestant can only open 2 buttons from the top on her shirt

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9wQOM TIL Jackie Gleason’s game show “You’re in the Picture” was so horrible that it’s second and final episode was nothing but a monologue apology by Jackie decreeing that it "laid, without a doubt, the biggest bomb in history” and "would make the H-Bomb look like a two-inch salute."
ADrx7 TIL about the unifying cube rule theory that claims to settle not only the "Is a hotdog a sandwich?" question, but many other similar food debates.
EP90 TIL that a calculator and a radio can be taped together to make a metal detector that really works!
dDMOQ TIL that mice are terrified by a chemical signal produced by cats, rats, and other predators. These chemicals led the mice to stop or stay close to the ground while they carefully assessed their surroundings.
OJK6 TIL in 1918, during WW1, there was a flu pandemic that killed 50 to 100 million people, all across the world. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States.