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TIL that if you play Tetris long enough you start imagining how it fits into real life and even start dreaming about it

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X0jKE TIL of the Greek scholar Didymus of Alexandria, nicknamed "Bronze-Guts" for his massive output or writing, with claims he wrote over 3,500 treatises. Almost nothing of it survives.
jNWwa TIL that a during the battle of Gettysburg in 1863 two bullets, a three banded Union bullet and a Confederate two banded bullet collided in mid flight and are on display at the Gettysburg Museum of History.
j6GxM TIL about the Great British Dog and Cat Massacre of 1939. In which Londoners, to prepare for war with Nazi Germany, voluntarily killed over 400,000 of their home pets in a one month period so as to ease the strain on resources. The deaths were found to be mostly unnecessary.
wvPP TIL: that The word “companion”, from the Latin word, com meaning “with” and panis meaning “bread”.
lGpN TIL that the company that created Zyklon B, the gas that was used to kill millions of Jews in the Holocaust, still exists as a pest control company.