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TIL In 2019, a chess player was sentenced to 6 months in prison for cheating in a chess Olympiad in France.

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JYykB TIL the U.S. Constitution forbids members of Congress from holding ‘any office under the United States’ concurrent with their congressional service. Legal scholars have concluded that individuals holding military commissions should be barred from serving in Congress.
X0gvk TIL: That Snoopy was originally going to be named "Sniffy," but Charles Schulz changed it last minute after seeing a comic with the same name. He chose "Snoopy," a name his mother had suggested for their next family dog.
kLe5 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.
wJ6 TIL that sloths only poop once a week and it’s called the poo dance
BXbe TIL that Canada is the only non-European member of the European Space Agency.