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TIL the ‘Tetris’ Theme is based on a Russian Folk Song about two peasants falling in love.

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nWKd7 TIL of barnacles - marine arthropods which - after a point in their life-cycle - live permanently attached to substrate - this is problematic, since they reproduce sexually - a penis of up to eight times their body length! - resolves this issue, allowing them to mate across vast distances.
JYmxB Today I learned about Nicolae Minovici, a Romanian forensic scientist who hung himself 12 times in order to better understand what is happening during the hanging process and to prove others wrong.
PYlRE TIL about RadiThor, an energy drink sold in the 1920s, claimed it provided energy and cured a host of ailments, including impotence. It was simply radium dissolved in water, slowly killing its customers.
mgGo TIL of Ryan Frederick: A Virginia man who shot a cop during a no knock raid on his home in the middle of the night looking for a cannabis grow operation. Frederick thought it was a burglar and the cops only found a koi pond and Japanese maples and a small amount of cannabis. He was given 10 years.
RMml TIL the collective term for cardinals (the bird) is a Vatican