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TIL Chess was invented in India

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4kVVX TIL: Wernher von Braun and Walt Disney collaborated on three 50s 'space-related' television films, Disney eager to promote Disneyland
YRoZ TIL that almost all all the commercially raised turkeys in the U.S. are the product of artificial insemination. Selective breeding has left male turkeys with such large breasts that they are unable to have sex.
yQ8VV TIL that in 2015, Colorado officials had to replace the 420 mile marker on I-70 with a 419.99 marker in order to stop thefts.
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p8rMN TIL the first 'talking car', the 1982 Datsun 810 Maxima, stored its voice messages ("lights are on", "left door is open", "fuel level is low", etc.) on a 3-inch, shock-resistant, plastic phonograph record.