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TIL, in 2014, after Bieber's arrest for DUI, "Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card" received almost 275,000 signatures. Petitions with 100,000 signatures require an official White House response. However, the WH's response was, "Sorry to disappoint, but we won't be commenting on this one."

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EgyJW TIL Tetris is called Tetris because of the Greek prefix “tetra” which means four, which is how many blocks are in a Tetris piece.
Kar9 TIL that two women named Mary Morris were murdered in the same area of Houston in 2000, four days apart and under similar circumstances. Both crimes are unsolved.
dQrZ TIL 40% of Rome’s population was slaves, imported from France or Germany, indistinguishable from the regular Italian. Some senators wanted to identify them with stars. Seneca replied, “If they knew how many of us there were compared to them, we would be in danger.”
kJQ64 TIL that the scientific name of the jojoba plant stems from a mistake made by a botanist, who misread “Calif.” (on a specimen collection label) as “China”. Thus, he gave it the specific name “chinensis”, incorrectly thinking it was native to China.
GAnm4 TIL After seeing its pork production decimated by flu outbreaks, farms across China have been investing billions of dollars into massive high-rise hog-raising facilities popularly known as pig hotels, with one hotel in the Southern China being 13 stories tall and meant to hold around 10,000 pigs.