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TIL Pinball was illegal in Oakland until 2014.
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TIL elite chess grandmasters can play multiple games of chess blindfolded simultaneously with great success
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TIL China is building MASSIVE cities just to keep builders busy and generate growth. The result are ghost metropolis.
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TIL Vladimir Lenin ruled the shortest time in the Soviet Union, only 1 year and 22 days.
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TIL about the Markovic Affair a political scandal in France in 1968 that followed a violent death of Stefan Marković, a friend and bodyguard of actor Alain Delon. The press speculated Delon was involved. Marković's murder is still unsolved.
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TIL The number of men and women in the world is roughly equal, though men hold a slight lead, men (50.4%) women (49.6%). Males have a higher risk of dying than females, both in childhood and at adult ages. So at a certain age, the numbers of men and women even out. In France this occurs at age 25