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TIL of ‘Tetris Effect’, where a person devoting a large amount of time to a particular pattern-based activity(which in this case is Tetris) will start unconsciously thinking and dreaming about it

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1XAD TIL on April 8th, 1999, major US food companies met to discuss the impact of their products on people’s health. A proactive strategy was rejected, as they concluded that reducing salt, sugar and fat for the purpose of public health had the potential to decrease palatability and profitability.
e0y6E TIL that Cory Ondrejka, former Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, was the game director of Road Rash 64.
PY89Z TIL Cher donated 180,000 bottles of water to Flint after their water was discovered unsafe due to lead contamination.
kOd47 TIL about Robert Landsberg, a photographer who upon realisation that he is going to die in the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 lied down on top of his equipment to preserve the photographs he had taken of the event.
VBRg0 TIL For its 21st edition, The Guinness Book of Records became the biggest-selling copyright book in history with sales totalling 23,950,000. The 2024 book is its 70th edition