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TIL Tetris is used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms

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e098D TIL of Joseph Grew, the US ambassador to Japan during the lead-up to WWII, who in Jan. 1941 heard rumors in Tokyo that the Japanese were preparing a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in case of a break with the US. Grew even alerted the US State Department.
oBgNK TIL that Czechia (the Czech Republic) consumes more beer per capita than any other country in the world with an average of 161 liters per person each year.
MQKV TIL Hamlet has been fully translated and performed in Klingon
xV09b TIL cockroach milk is four times as nutritious as cow’s milk.
R7EG1 TIL in 1995, after the U.S. Congress attempted to deny foreign aid to Turkey, the mayor of Izmir, Turkey banned the sale of Dole bananas, mistakenly believing that then-Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole owned the fruit company.