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TIL there are even more possible iterations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe,

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OWBe TIL of WW1 Casualty/Mercy dogs. Dogs trained to find wounded or dying soldiers on the battlefield that also carried medical supplies so an injured soldier could try to treat himself (whilst more gravely wounded soldiers would seek the company of a Mercy dog to wait with them whilst they died).
O8dg TIL in the 1960s an Indo-American expedition tried to place a nuclear-powered monitoring device on a peak in the Himalayas, but it was lost in an avalanche. 5 kilograms of plutonium remain unaccounted for, somewhere near the source of the Ganges River.
R7AM8 TIL that solar power is the cheapest form of energy in history at $32.78 per MWh, and 62% of renewable energy sources are cheaper than fossil fuels overall.
NEL6 TIL there are tribes called ‘Cargo Cults’, who worshipped planes during WW2, believing they were gifts from the gods, and they built their own small airstrips and phoney planes to attract them. Some tribes still exist today.
nePL7 TIL that the confederate president tried to escape capture dressed as an old women at the end of the civil war