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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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00X1 TIL in Islamic law, a woman has the right to annul her marriage if her husband is away for too long because her right to intimacy is paramount
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8aRLK TIL that "pizzly" bears, grizzly/polar bear hybrids, are found in the wild as well as captivity
WjGL TIL that in a 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote that Germany’s next war will be a world war, “eight to ten million soldiers will massacre one another” and “the devastations of the Thirty Years’ War” will be “compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent.”
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