October 23, 2016 at 03:07AM

Today I Learned: 1) A number of chess endgames in which one player only has a king and the other players only have a small number of pieces, have been solved, though some solutions are difficult to execute. Two knights, for example, cannot win against a king. Two bishops can, but it's difficult to execute without accidentally tieing. 2) "Wort" is a word, but not the word I thought it was -- wort is, according to Wiki, "the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky". 3) ...about Margaret Sanger. When I first heard the name, I thought perhaps she was the inventer of Sanger sequencing, which had me really excited to learn about her. Turns out she's just one of the most important sex educators in the 20th century and basically started birth control as an institutional thing in America. Oh well.