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

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97GD TIL despite over 5 million square feet of floor space, the Pentagon in Washington was constructed in such a way that no point in the building is more than a 10 minute walk from any other point in the building.
lox81 TIL Egypt is building a new capital city as a replacement for Cairo. The city is being developed to have a "smart traffic" system and a green space larger than New York's Central Park. They haven't picked a name yet.
l7Om7 TIL Walt Disney won 4 Oscars at the 1953 Academy Awards; the most by an individual in a single year.
kXee TIL of the “dementor wasp,” called Ampulex dementor, which injects a toxin into cockroaches that leave them alive but without a will of their own, yet still mobile enough that they can run right into the wasp’s nest to be conveniently devoured
YkDv TIL that when they reach a certain elevation, French mountain climbers switch from the formal “vous” to the personal “tu” form of “you”, as all become equal in the face of the enormousness of nature.