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TIL the US House of Representatives and the British/Irish House of Commons used to play matches of chess against each other via telegraph

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ADyLn TIL about Carl Tanzler, a radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient. In 1933, almost 2 yrs after her death, Tanzler removed her body from its tomb, & lived w the corpse for 7 yrs.
rN4wy TIL the Knight Rider theme song is based on the 1876 ballet "Sylvia" by Léo Delibes
WkNRB TIL Billie Holiday gave her final performance in New York City on May 25, 1959. Not long after this event, Holiday was admitted to the hospital for heart and liver problems. She was so addicted to heroin that she was even arrested for possession while in the hospital.
VM4a4 TIL there's a town in Madagascar that used to be called Hell-Ville. (It was named after Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell, who was a governor of nearby Réunion.)
yVXVw TIL NoFap was created by a known Pseudoscience peddler.