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TIL Bobby Fischer is believed to have played online chess in the year 2000, well after his last known game in 1982

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ZaRR TIL to prepare for the role of Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Alan Tudyk joined a group of pirate role players called the Rumrunners and spent a week at Pirate Camp.
rR58e TIL Unit 731 was a secret Japanese Research site in occupied China during WWII. They used thousands of Prisoners as guinea pigs in horrific experiments to breed and develop biological and chemical weapons. After the war, the US overlooked these atrocities in exchange for their records and results
j6xNn TIL about Alvin “Tex” Johnson, a test pilot for Boeing who barrel rolled the 707 passenger jet prototype in 1955 over Seattle without orders. When asked he simply said: “I’m selling airplanes”.
oRKVA TIL Ferruccio Lamborghini was a successful tractor manufacturer who loved driving his Ferraris. After telling Enzo Ferrari that the cars' clutches need to be improved, he was snubbed and told to stick to tractors. Infuriated, this started their legendary rivalry.
wlGY TIL that the intense rationing in England during WWII actually reduced infant mortality by guaranteeing nutrition to everyone.