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TIL that Image-Line, the developers of Fruity Loops, made a game called "Porntris" in 1992, which was an erotic version of Tetris.

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M9vK TIL that the movie, U-571, states that Americans were responsible for capturing the first enigma machine. The truth is that the first enigma machine was captured by the British, 7 months before the Americans entered the war.
wolPP TIL in 2004, a starquake was detected, which was so powerful that if the star was located within 10 light years of Earth, it would have likely caused a mass extinction.
Zpyxo TIL Burnaby, British Columbia announced a 100 year plan in 2019 to transform a large shopping mall into a downtown core with high rises, plazas, walkable streets
yQeRM San Francisco is known for tech bros, a prison island, and, of course, its thick, ever-present, fog. An image submitted to National Geographic’s Travel Photographer of the Year contest shows that iconic fog in action, as it slowly envelops a whole Bay Area town.
VB07D TIL that Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers was in The Outsiders