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TIL The only time a chess game has ended in a result of 0-0 (instead of 1-0, 0-1, or ½-½) was when Tony Miles and Stewart Reuben both agreed to a draw without playing any moves to secure them both a high place. The arbiter decided to award 0 points to each player instead of a draw.

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VBEkm TIL that before 1950 Chickens were largely grown by Farming Wives as a sideline, and Americans ate no more than 6 birds per year per person. Post 1950, chicken farming became industrialized. Now the average American household eats Chicken 3-4 times a week for a total of 30 birds per year per person.
J1mgB TIL the first known movie to use a special effect is the 18 second long film The Execution of Mary Stuart. The effect was the stop trick, involving the splicing of two shots, one with the actor playing Mary and the other with a mannequin, with the mannequin's head being chopped off.
rRmOM TIL The ‘small penis rule’ describes a way fiction authors use to avoid libel suits. Characters are given small penises so that no one will come forward and say a character is like them as no male will admit to having a small penis.
OwV4 TIL in 2016, with the support of her mother, a U.K. teenage girl with terminal cancer successfully petitioned London’s High Court for the right to be cryogenically frozen. The girl died with the knowledge that she would be frozen, and her body was sent to the U.S. for long-term cryogenic storage.
VMQop TIL that dogs can tell when someone is pregnant. When you are pregnant you give off a body odor that dogs can smell. They can also tell by body shape and body language.