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TIL the Las Vegas Strip is located in Paradise

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Eg9gw Today I learned how castling in chess 960 works, and it looks hilarious
neXL7 TIL Nietzsche's opinion about poets from Henry Rollins of Black Flag: "Poets are those who muddy their waters to make them appear deep".
Bgpjy TIL that data consistently show a spike in traffic deaths following the Super Bowl, and a spike in drunk-driving deaths specifically. For the five Super Bowls between 2015 and 2019, there were 244 total traffic deaths nationwide in the 12-hour period during and after the Super Bowl.
OGar1 TIL of Doctor Yellow, the name for the two diagnostic bullet trains on Japan's Shinkansen. They test the tracks at 270 kph. Seeing one of these rare trains is considered a sign of good luck
GYVOJ TIL a bully who terrorized the town, commiting a number of varying crimes including attempted murder, was shot dead in front of 40+ people yet nobody “saw a thing.”