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P1K6g TIL Karpov vs. Kasparov, World Chess Championship 1984 match lasted for five months & five days. FIDE President Florencio Campomanes unilaterally terminated the match, citing the players' health despite both players wanting to continue. Karpov is said to have lost 10 kg over the course of the match.
Ye0r TIL: That on June 6th 1942, 500 Japanese soldiers invaded and captured Kiska, Alaska. Taking a 10 man (and 6 dog) US Navy weather detachment completely by surprise. By the end of the campaign more casualties occurred in Alaska than at Pearl Harbor.
VM6e0 TIL Tailfins for cars only stuck around for a little over a decade. It started first as pointy little nubs and then as big fins peaking in 1959 with Cadillac producing the most iconic pair of tailfins ever
l7Dla TIL that a scientist on Scott’s 1910 Antarctic expedition observed Adélie penguins engaging in necrophilia, same-sex behavior, and chick abuse—and was so disturbed he wrote his findings in Greek to keep them secret
rAeW TIL A man in TX was still executed after someone else confessed for committing the murder and the only eyewitness admitted he didn’t actually see it.