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TIL Tetris is named from the joining of the Greek word “tetra” (meaning “four,” as every piece in the game has four blocks) and “tennis,” the creator’s favorite sport.

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kOkl7 TIL 1.3 Million Indians served in WW1, 1 in 6 of the British forces. In return, the British had insincerely promised to deliver progressive self-rule to India at the end of the war. Something Akin to Canada and South Africa. But the British broke their word.
VMNAp TIL that disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 was likely a planned murder-suicide by the captain of the airplane
molx TIL: Upon leaving the presidency in 1953, President Truman and his wife Bess drove themselves back home to Independence, Missouri.
mpbo TIL that there is no reason to expect a supervolcanic eruption at Yellowstone in the near future. Such events are ‘neither regular nor predictable’.
GKY5 TIL that 95% of the world’s financial transactions is speculation.