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TIL the "Elo" in the Elo rating system is not an acronym but named after its creator, Arpad Elo.

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GKNQ TIL that according to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.
p89vA TIL that Winona Ryder was born in a town named Winona.
9lNM TIL ‘The Bloop’, a loud and ultra-low frequency sound picked up by the NOAA in 1997 and heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, was not a “sea monster” but the sound of an ice shelf breaking off of Antarctica – an icequake.
EQRP TIL that in Poland, near Gryfino, a mysterious forest has 400 pine trees all with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks – all northward.
5YObQ TIL that in 1939 20,000 Americans met in Madison Square Garden, then rallied in support of Hitler and the Nazis.