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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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ADApa TIL "Hocus Pocus" was released in July 1993 instead of October due to Disney not wanting it to compete against their other Halloween-themed film, "The Nightmare Before Christmas", which was due for release in October by Touchstone Pictures.
gx54 TIL that IBM has stated that the Scroll Lock key on your keyboard does nothing. When PC Magazine asked an executive of keyboard manufacturer Key Tronic about the key’s purpose he replied, “I don’t know, but we put it on ours too.”
JLR4 TIL that the Saxons sometimes dyed their hair bright red, green, orange and sky blue
Oovr1 TIL that the saying "O'Clock" is short form for "Of The Clock." It originated as early as the 14th century and was said to distinguish between other time telling methods.
4PpJ TIL that in 2000 Nestlé chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe stated that “access to water should not be a public right.” While that statement was recanted, Nestlé continues to take control of aquifers and bottle their water for profit.