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TIL Shirley Temple’s daughter was the bass player for The Melvins

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jOrX TIL in Lewis Carroll’s through the looking glass, Alice’s movements through the book map out a playable game of chess
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pYO6G TIL there was an attempt to make a pigeon-guided missile in WW2
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XRJD TIL H. G. Wells created a tabletop-esque war game, in 1913, called “Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books.” which can be read and downloaded via Project Gutenberg.