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TIL most languages name the game of Chess after their word for “check”

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nWNyr TIL that Fahrenheit and Celsius meet at -40°F (-40°C)
X4E TIL that the entire dandilion plant is edible. 100 g of its leaves provides nearly 750% your recommended daily intake of Vitamin K, its flowers can be used to make wine, its root can be used to make a coffee-tasting drink, and is also used in several soft drinks
4XP1a TIL Brenda E. Robinson was the first African American female pilot in US Navy history in 1980
OGMd6 TIL that Margaret Ann Neve was the first recorded female supercentenarian and the second validated human to reach the age of 110. She was also the first proven individual whose life spanned three centuries, having been born in 1792 and died in 1903.
woMjP TIL that on 10th February 1890 an estimated 180,000 mummified cats, weighing 19.5 tons, were shipped from Egypt to Liverpool, auctioned, and sold for fertilizer