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TIL the co-creator of Tetris brutally murdered his family because he never received any money from the success of Tetris.

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dZj7 TIL the odds of your father’s sperm meeting with your mother’s egg to create you is 1 in 4 quadrillion. The odds of you existing as yourself (traced back to your first ancestors) is 10^2,685.000.
6Egv8 TIL that in "Man on the Moon", Jim Carrey and Jerry Lawler had an actual feud. Carrey spat in Lawler's face and got him fired. When Lawler was rehired for the Letterman segment, he retaliated by slapping him as hard as he could - much harder than he slapped the real Kaufman during their fake feud.
6kZm TIL there’s a part of Canada that has black bears, grizzly bears, AND polar bears.
vPZ9R TIL dogs can somehow determine the quickest path to fetch a ball thrown in water, something humans need calculus to solve
KwnR TIL The Westboro Baptist Church is funded by the US government paying legal fees to them.