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wokp1 TIL Garry Kasparov helped design a chess-playing computer program. Kasparov also makes an appearance as the last computer profile which has to be defeated in order to win the "Kasparov Chess Club"
dD7nK TIL that british climber Alan Hinkes had to be air rescued from Nanga Parbat in 1997 when flour from a burnt chapati (a type of flatbread) got up his nose, making him sneeze so violently that he prolapsed a disc. He waited 10 days in agony before being rescued and is since known as the "chapati man"
JYQMV TIL that during the Battle of Verdun, the French and German armies each fired more than 100,000 shells a day for more than 300 days over an area of 10 km2 (6 times smaller than Manhattan). In total, about 50 million shells were fired during this battle alone
nj8b TIL some animals are endangered because governments rely on common ownership. Whilst Kenya has experienced vast decreases in their elephant population, conversely, Zimbabwe, advocating private elephant ownership, has experienced population excesses.
kOrnB TIL the current King of the Netherlands has been secretly flying as a commercial co-pilot for 21 years, and has been doing so even after ascending to the throne in 2013