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TIL After playing chess for 14 hours a day for months in preperation for the chess world championship, Bobby Fischer was asked what he was going to do now that he had won, his response was: "My goal now is to play more chess, I haven't played enough chess"

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X5BE TIL that there is a biker gang from Arizona who help keep child abuse victims safe while the child’s abuser is prosecuted, including guarding their houses at night if person is not yet in jail and attending court with the child, shielding them so they don’t have to look at their abuser
GY0ON TIL hip-hop artists Wu-Tang Clan recorded a single copy of a secret album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin". It was limited to a single copy sold for a reported $2 million.
jNM9X TIL Handshakes were originally meant to make sure that the person you were meeting wasn’t carrying a concealed weapon. The hand clasp proved that your hand was empty and shaking was meant to dislodge any weapons hiding up the sleeve.
j6kOR TIL that during the fall of Saigon in 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military used the song White Christmas as a secret signal to begin evacuations before the city fell.
9w6v6 TIL of Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian, who was killed after an eagle carrying a tortoise, mistook Aeschylus' bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the reptile's shell. Apparently, Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed "by a falling object".