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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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gy68 TIL that Senior Chief Robert O'Neill, the Navy SEAL that killed Bin Laden, also rescued Captain Phillips and Marcus Luttrell, the SEAL from the movie “Lone Survivor”.
gMrwW TIL: Flexible fridge magnets are magnetized in rows of N/S pairs, which you can mess or fix with strong magnets
AD4bx TIL that in 2003, Ekaterina Dmitrieva married the cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko through a video call while he was in orbit, with a cardboard cutout of him as a proxy. As he hadn't sought permission, weddings in space were banned afterwards, he's therefore the only man in history who married in space.
16pP8 TIL a film adaptation of the best-selling erotic romance novel "Gabriel’s Inferno" was directed Tosca Musk, sister of Elon.
DMZe TIL a translator for the European Commission in Brussels knows 32 languages including Greek, English, German, Italian, Russian, East African Swahili, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin and Bengali, plus some dead languages like Old Church Slavic.