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TIL elite chess grandmasters can play multiple games of chess blindfolded simultaneously with great success

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DQOxY TIL about Salzburg’s Krampus Parade, where people dress as terrifying ‘Krampuses’ to roam the streets in December, an old Alpine tradition tied to St. Nicholas.
YkGW TIL because of “Hollywood Accounting”, most movies (including blockbusters) have technically not turned a profit allowing Hollywood to not pay certain contributors.
gMG9A TIL tampon companies test the absorbency of their products with a synthetic vagina called a Syngyna
nJ5W TIL that many pirates in the early 1700’s in the Caribbean were escaped African slaves. By some accounts, 70 served with the famous Blackbeard
p8p8e TIL In 2015, Neil Moore, a prisoner serving time for a $2.7 million fraud conviction, walked out the front gate of a high security prison by forging his own release papers.