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TIL Chess grandmaster Judit Polgár beat a family friend at age 5 without looking at the board.

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XEQO6 TIL about "Bat-boy: The Musical", an off-broadway production based off of the infamous 1992 Weekly World News article. Keythe Farley, who co-authored the musical, is well known as the voice of Thane Krios in the Mass Effect series.
kJdx7 TIL Federico da Montefeltro lost one of his eyes in a tournament so he had the bridge of his nose removed to increase the field of vision of his remaining eye.
jNoAQ TIL that Aldous Huxley's descriptions of the effects of alcohol on fetuses in Brave New World predate the scientific recognition of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by more than four decades.
yQQjM TIL Adolf Hitler was the first European leader to ban human zoos.
D1Ave TIL Brass, Copper and some other alloys, when used as door knobs in hospitals, kill bacteria, even antibiotic ones such as MRSA far faster than steel and aluminium due to the Oligodynamic Effect