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9Y9BB TIL that at a 1976 Amsterdam chess tournament, Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi politely asked an English competitor how to spell the words "political asylum." He then went straight to a police station and announced that he wished to defect.
d849Z TIL that if we were given glasses that perfectly inverted our eyesight and turned everything upside-down, our brains would eventually figure it out and flip said things right-side-up again.
7rgm7 TIL Dark roast coffee has less caffeine than light roast coffee. The coffee beans lose more caffeine the more they are roasted.
78gBZ Today I learned people are wrapping bacon around burritos in San Diego
LkLgQ TIL a fascist Italy in 1935 ended slavery in Ethiopia. Mind = blown.