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TIL The blocks in Tetris are called Tetrominoes

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lMVA TIL that Humble Oil, which would later become Exxon Mobil, advertised that it sold enough energy in a day to melt 7 million tons of glacier.
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16bAX TIL that there is a broom closet inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex labelled "Stargate Command" in reference to the fact that the bunker was the fictional setting of the TV show "Stargate SG-1."
DQ79r TIL about a horse named Muhamed who could mentally extract cube roots, read, and was killed after being drafted into WWI
QJm0k TIL that there is a song that sounds like it is sung by an American in English, but in fact is only gibberish sung by an Italian imitating the accent. It was written to demonstrate how a lot of Italian people loved English songs but understood only very little.