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TIL the current Spanish-language World Champion for Scrabble has previously also won the French-language and English-language championships. A New Zealander, he only speaks English.

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MYEB TIL that the word ‘plastic’ in 'plastic surgery’ is in no way a reference to the petroleum based engineered material, but actually denotes 'sculpting or reshaping’, from the Greek derived word 'πλαστική’ (plastikē), “the art of modelling” of malleable flesh.
mxKGp TIL Galaga (1981) had a predecessor: Galaxian (1979), which was the first popular video game to use RGB color graphics.
M6nm TIL Soviet NKVD (KGB) chief Genrikh Yagoda was arrested and shot in 1938. His successor, Nikolai Yezhov, was arrested and shot in 1940. His successor, Lavrentiy Beria, was arrested and shot in 1953.
5R5D TIL that “Spider Goats” are a thing. Since farming spiders for silk isn’t ideal, scientists spliced silk spider genes into goats. This new goat can then produces silk out of its utter with its milk.
VMnb8 TIL that cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world