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TIL Walking was a competitive sport in the 19th century.

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vPaW7 TIL that during the Tiananmen Square Massacre the streets were actually cleared by 6 AM on June 4th instead of the protests actually beginning on that date.
E1Oj0 TIL In 2008, game designer Sid Meier cited the Nintendo Seal of Quality as one of the three most important innovations in video game history, as it helped set a standard for game quality that protected consumers from shovelware.
EKX0 TIL Bobby Fischer developed a variant of chess where the starting positions were randomized because he thought too many top level players were simply memorizing opening positions
ZkV4 TIL that in 1999, it took Google 1 MONTH to crawl and build an index of about 50 million pages. On the contrary, the same task was accomplished in less than 1 MINUTE a just over a decade after!
M711a TIL of American psychiatrist Eugene David Glynn, who was a longtime romantic partner of Maurice Sendak. Sendak even illustrated Glynn's book "Desperate Necessity: Writings on Art and Psychoanalysis"