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TIL 13-year-old BlueScuti became the first human to reach the "kill screen" for the NES version of Tetris after a 40-minute 1,511 line performance. And until just a few years ago, the Tetris community at large had assumed that it was functionally impossible for someone to get much past 290 lines.

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