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TIL the Sun makes a full rotation every 27 days.

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exw6 TIL the Tetris theme is based on a Russian Folk Song called Korobeiniki
4kJMJ TIL that Polynesians and Native Americans met nearly three hundred years before Columbus' first voyage. Scientists found that people across several Polynesian islands had Native American DNA, evidence that the two groups met one another. Scientists traced their first contact to about the year 1200.
xVKV7 TIL of a new disorder "Orthosomnia," wherein someone is so obsessed with getting good sleep that they actually lose sleep over it.
OOKR TIL of a German Nazi interrogator who never used any physical means to obtain the information but was so successful that the US military incorporated his methods into its curriculum. Later in life he became a mosaic artist and did the Cinderella Castle mosaic at the Disney World Florida.
7K1X TIL that “sardine” isn’t actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae.