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TIL nearly every TV sitcom "laugh track" was created by one guy in his garage, operating a mysterious invention

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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.
R5l59 TIL of the half-life of knowledge which pertains to the duration it takes for half of the knowledge within a specific field to become outdated or replaced.
R5MPl TIL Neapolitan ice cream was invented in Prussia.
yQYVw TIL: In 1884, before there were ambulances for people in San Francisco, there was an ambulance for horses. It came to the aid of six in its first month of service.
8aZpa TIL there's an island on the Pacific that was founded by mutineers, today it has a population of only 50, and in 2004 8 men were convicted of sexual crimes against minors, a full 1/3 of the male population of the island. They had to build a prison to imprison them.