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TIL Tetris was originally created as a simple game to test the capabilities of new Soviet hardware. This is the original version.

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grWw4 TiL that the spiral shell of a Nautilus cephalopod isn't full of its body, but a system of air chambers that act like buoyancy chambers on a submarine!
4k6WX TIL David Bowie used to travel around in New York carrying a Greek newspaper in the belief that people would assume he was just a Greek man who looked like David Bowie and leave him alone.
6EjlQ TIL Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, but announced it in Latin. One reporter got the scoop and broke the story because she understood Latin. Most other reporters waited for official translations.
m8kM TIL Muay Thai Kick boxers go through bone training by creating hairline fractures in their shins that eventually heal becoming harder than rock
xVLbg TIL Salvador Dalí’s brother died nine months before the artist was born. When Dalí was 5 years old, his parents took him to his brother’s grave and told him that he was his brother’s reincarnation. Salvador believed it and incorporated this idea into his future paintings.