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Yes, but they never lose that slender figure.
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TIL that in competitive chess, if you want to adjust a piece that has been knocked over or jostled away from the center of its square, you use the French terms "J'adoube", which also means "I nominate (to a position)" and "I bestow knighthood upon (someone)".
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TIL: 53-year-old former Chicago Sun Times Publisher, James Tyree, died accidentally from an air embolism and the family won a ten million dollar wrongful death suit settlement.
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TIL that Billiards directly contributed to the invention of plastic since ivory was too expensive for billiard balls
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TIL about Roar [1981], a movie filmed with 150 untrained lions and tigers with no safety precautions, leading to several injuries. The animals were given co-writing credits because they couldn't use the real script all that often since the actors were just terrified and running for their lives.
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TIL that the old testament was not written with the same hebrew alphabet that is used today. It was written using the paleo-hebrew alphabet.