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TIL if you type 153349 followed by pressing the + and - keys simultaneously on most Canon calculators, you can play Tetris!

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4kXPJ TIL British duo The Chemical Brothers used to call themselves The Dust Brothers (from the US duo of the same name) on their early days. They had to change it from Dust to Chemical shortly before releasing their 1st album because the US Dust Brothers threatened them to sue them if they didn't.
NXBbQ TIL fairy dust was added to Peter Pan so that children wouldn't hurt themselves trying to fly when they got home from seeing the play.
XE0pX TIL There has not been a year in the last 14 years when Mr. Brightside by the Killers was not in the UK top 100 chart and at 189 weeks, it holds the record for the most weeks in the top 100
Zwdp TIL that gifs would load ~8 times faster if we converted them all to HTML5 video
GYjYg TIL The great composer J.S. Bach, who created monumentally beautiful choral works like the St. Matthew Passion, got into a dagger fight with one of his students after calling him a "nanny-goat bassoonist".