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TIL the Tetris theme is based on a Russian Folk Song called Korobeiniki

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nxM9 TIL in 1911 British Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick observed the sexual habits of an Adélie Penguin rookery. The habits included necrophilia, coercion and homosexuality. The report was deemed too indecent at the time and was only published in 2012.
R7ega TIL there are three common musical key signature naming systems in use: The C-D-E-F-G-A-B system in the Anglosphere and East Asia, C-D-E-F-G-A-H system used in the historically German influenced areas and do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si solfege in all Romance speaking and influenced countries/colonies
Z8Av4 TIL Of the only medical case of a person being both a dwarf and a giant | Adam Rainer was 111.5cm (3 foot 7.9 in) at age 19, yet 234cm (7 ft 8 in) at age 51
9Yor TIL Matt Groening was once strip searched in airport security. As he was led away, a little boy laughed at him like Nelson from The Simpsons. Groening found the mockery the worst part of the incident
nbJd TIL that the 1940’s actress Gene Tierney had a child born deaf and developmentally disabled because Tierney contracted Rubella during her pregnancy from a fan who broke a Rubella quarantine and came in contact with her.