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TIL Brandon Novak gives out his phone number on the internet to speak to strangers battling addiction. People have said he talked to them for an hour and then 20 more times over the next month.

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OoPe6 TIL that the theme song from Tetris is actually a Russian folk song. It is titled Korobeiniki, and describes a peddler who offers a girl various goods in exchange for sex, then agrees to marry her before being murdered by a forest ranger.
VMwWk TIL that polydactyly (having many fingers) in cats was seen by sailors as advantageous for catching mice aboard ships. Consequently there is a high proportion of these cats in sea port areas such as Boston, Nova Scotia and Great Britain.
0bYR TIL America has almost half of the world’s civilian-owned guns, despite having 4.4% of world population
OJJX TIL that Snapchat was originally marketed as an app to send nude pictures called Picaboo
OGgnX TIL in 2013 two Iranian F-4 Phantoms attempted to intercept a drone escorted by two F-22 Raptors. Due to having a bumblebee-sized radar cross-section, an F-22 was able to fly underneath an F-4 to see its weapons without it noticing then flew next to the F-4 and radioed "you really ought to go home."