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TIL that 92% of Afghan men have never heard of 9/11

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j68EQ TIL that 60s counterculture leader Abbie Hoffman's suicide note, dated 1989, read: "It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful."
d8Ky7 TIL that in 2014 China banned the use of puns and wordplay for comic effect because they cause 'cultural and linguistic chaos'
5Y9L8 TIL that Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage and his wife, Erica Schmidt, have never revealed the name of their daughter, born in 2011. Dinklage and Schmidt had a second child in 2017. The couple never revealed the name or sex of this second child.
gMKj7 TIL To prevent English tech vocabulary from entering the French language, French officials suggested 'le mobile multifonction' (mobile multifunction) as an alternative to the English word 'smartphone.'
jNEdv TIL Tetris has an official sequel. Called "Welltris", it was developed by the original creator 5 years after the creation of Tetris, retains that game's falling-block puzzle gameplay but extends the pit into three dimensions while the blocks remain two-dimensional, with the board viewed from above.