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TIL The Tetris Company emerged from a Soviet agency. Today, it licences it's trademark and doesn't make the game anymore. Instead it sues people who make unlicensed clones.

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mxvkM TIL almost all calico cats are female. The gene for coat color is on the female (X) chromosome. To get a calico coat, a cat must have a black gene from one parent and an orange gene from the other parent, resulting in all XX females. Sometimes a male calico is born who is XXY, but they're sterile.
X0Mpr TIL: Soap operas got their name because soap companies were the primary advertisers of radio dramas (target towards women).
Ejrp TIL of Prader WIlli syndrome which leads to a feeling of constant insatiable hunger 24x7 throughout the patient’s life
8abYK TIL that one of the ingredients of Worcestershire Sauce is anchovies.
grV5y TIL about the Pittsburgh Agreement. In the wake of World War I, Czech and Slovak officials met in Pittsburgh, USA where they would sign a memorandum of understanding to form a new nation in Czechoslovakia