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TIL Swiss People Eat Not Only Dogs But Also Cats

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yVPga TIL about the Barnes Opening, considered one of the worst chess openings and deemed as having almost no strategic advantages and a lot of drawbacks.
neEvr TIL In 1974, Johnny Carson requested that NBC stop airing Tonight Show reruns on the weekend as he wanted to save those reruns for the extra vacation days he was planning to take. NBC wanted to fill those slots, so they hired Lorne Michaels to develop a show. That show became SNL.
VJD8 TIL John Cusack has trained in kickboxing for over 20 years and is a sixth-degree black belt.
yAkX TIL former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was a sexual maniac who nicknamed his penis “Jumbo” and he would often urinate in public. If anyone confronted him while doing so, he would turn around and say “have you ever seen anything as big as this?”
78nPP TIL Nero's teenage brother died at a dinner party with his entire family present. Some of the guests were shocked, but Nero shrugged it off, saying it was normal, as he was having epileptic seizures since birth, so they carried on with their party