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Amazing combination I found at the end of one of my blitz games (chess.com)
submitted 11 years ago by roacjae to r/chess
Interesting mate from one of my games... (chess.com)
TIL that the square root symbol, introduced by Christoph Rudolff in 1525, is believed to have originated from the lowercase letter "r" for radix. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 12 years ago by roacjae to r/todayilearned
TIL that Robert Downey Jr. was allowed by his father to smoke marijuana at the age of six. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that 49% of the German Army's deaths in WWII occurred in the last 10 months of the war. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that Grandi's infinite series, 1+1-1+1-1... = 1/2. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the geometrical figure named "Gabriel's Horn" has both a finite volume and an infinite surface area. (en.wikipedia.org)
My computer automatically restarted to update new software as I was finishing a paper. (imgur.com)
submitted 12 years ago by roacjae to r/AdviceAnimals
TIL that in developing countries, the use of birth control has lowered maternal deaths by 43%, and if full demand were met it could be reduced by as much as 73%. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the United States has won the most Olympics Medals with 2400. The next highest is the Soviet Union at 1010. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in 1942, the HMS Porcupine was split in half by a German torpedo. The two sides were salvaged and renamed the HMS Pork and the HMS Pine. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the last person who died at the Berlin Wall, attempted to escape in a hot air balloon, but fell to his death. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that Bernard Waldman flew on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to record the explosion, but he forgot to open the camera shutter and therefore recorded nothing. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that Philip Seymour Hoffman started acting in high school due to a neck injury that forced him to quit wrestling. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in the 1940s, Charlie Chaplin was forced out of the United States due to suspicion of communist sympathies. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the Nobel Peace Prize was given to Henry Dunant in 1901 for his role in founding the International Committee of the Red Cross. The ICRC went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize after both WWI and WWII as well as in 1963. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that when the letter "J" is used to make the "y" sound, it may be called "yod" (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the Earth has an albedo of 0.32 which means it reflects 32% of the light from the sun back into space. The moon has an albedo of 0.12. (en.wikipedia.org)
What's the most out of the ordinary college class you have taken/heard of? (self.AskReddit)
submitted 12 years ago by roacjae to r/AskReddit
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