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TIL that eighth World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal had three fingers on his right hand

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Oo4XR TIL the ManhattAnt is a unique species of ant found only in New York City. Biologists stumbled upon them in the Broadway medians at 63rd and 76th streets in 2010, and the biologists claim the ant species does not match any of the 13,000 known species. The ants subsist on a diet high in corn syrup.
m7XP TIL Hookworms infested up to 40% of the population in the South after the civil war…symptoms stymied development for decades and bred stereotypes of lazy, moronic Southerners.
XpxP TIL: The “Command” color used in Star Trek: the Original Series was actually lime-green and not yellow. Fabric of normal tunic made it appear yellow under studio lighting.
VjW8 TIL Woolworth’s (huge department store until the 1980’s) did not go out of business completely… it just got smaller and changed its name to Foot Locker
6E16Z TIL about Charity Hospital the second oldest hospital in the United States that was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans still spends $3 million dollars a year securing the building, after a $1.2 billion dollar hospital was opened to replace it.