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TIL Google hires programmers through their own search engine

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PYQkG TIL in medieval games of chess, pawns that had been promoted to queen would be given the title of an "advisor," so as to not imply that the king had more than one queen or was unfaithful.
kJ64E TIL Leonardo Da Vinci stole dead bodies to better understand human anatomy
loPm5 TIL that Kendrick Lamar's DAMN is the first non classical/jazz musical work to win the Pulitzer Music Prize. The awards began in 1943.
wL5P1 TIL that in C. S. Lewis' Narnia the god Bacchus would sometimes visit, turning all the streams to wine and everyone in the forest would have a drunken party for weeks.
vnDx TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal; it has been going for 631 years and still stands today.