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Today I Learned English Romanticism was born from a serious Germanomania that inspired Poets, Novelists, and Philosophers

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9wWXX TIL 13-year-old BlueScuti became the first human to reach the "kill screen" for the NES version of Tetris after a 40-minute 1,511 line performance. And until just a few years ago, the Tetris community at large had assumed that it was functionally impossible for someone to get much past 290 lines.
R7lDQ TIL that the average person will spend 4 months of their life just waiting for red lights to change to green.
8am9a TIL Historically, Native American communities conducted a salmon ceremony where they showed respect to the first caught salmon by sharing it with everyone in the community, cleaning its skeleton and returning it to the river where it could return to its kin and tell of the respect it received.
VBnZB TIL an early free trade agreement between the US and Canada was terminated by the US partly because of American anger towards the British's unofficial support of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
xdxB TIL that if Apple finds underage workers in their factories, they make the suppliers return the children to their homes, pay for their education at a school of their family’s choice, and continue to provide income for basic needs until they reach the legal working age.