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TIL that there exists a competitive sport which combines boxing with a game of chess every other round.

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YpZGW TIL: Tennessee State Representative Harry Burn was the deciding vote that led to the ratification of the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote in the U.S. He said: “I know that a mother’s advice is always safest for her boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification.”
6Evjl TIL that the first anti-hacking law was passed after President Reagan saw the movie War Games and asked his staff if this could happen. A week later the response was “Mr. President, the problem is much worse than you think.”
gr6YA TIL: Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name from a Monty Python sketch
dgD9 TIL 1) a goat reached the rank of lance corporal in the British Army and 2) got demoted for inappropriate behavior during the Queen’s Official Birthday.
QJ6ZE TIL the oldest company in the world has been operating since 578 AD