TIL that in 2015 New Zealand man Nigel Richards won the French World Scrabble Championships, despite not speaking French. He had studied the French dictionary for nine weeks prior to the championships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_player)
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