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TIL The Chinese title for the film Pretty Woman is “I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money”

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jNEdv TIL Tetris has an official sequel. Called "Welltris", it was developed by the original creator 5 years after the creation of Tetris, retains that game's falling-block puzzle gameplay but extends the pit into three dimensions while the blocks remain two-dimensional, with the board viewed from above.
oBGPR TIL that as of May of this year, there are still two survivors of the polio epidemic living in the US that depend on iron lungs
VN90 TIL Classical composers Bach and Handel were both blinded by the same surgeon
ykBv TIL The 52 Playing cards in a deck represent the 52 weeks in a year. The 4 suits represent the 4 seasons.
4XYJR Fifty years ago today, air stewardess Vesna Vulovic plunged more than 33,000 feet from an exploding airliner, landed in a Czechoslovak mountain range, and survived. Subsequently, it was determined that Vulovic’s fall was the highest that a human has ever sustained without a parachute.