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today i learned that the blocks in tetris are called Tetrominos!

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0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.
4kOow TIL: A deceased former federal judge remains one of the few judges to have ever questioned the reliability of fingerprinting. In 1991, after learning counties applied different standards to decide if two prints matched, Judge Letts declared he'd never allow fingerprint evidence again.
xVkp0 TIL the only head coach in Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball history to have a losing record during their time at Kansas was James Naismith, who was the inventor of basketball.
XEajP TIL that the longest prison sentence ever, of 1,000,000 years, was received by Chamoy Thipyaso, for her swindling 16,000 Thais
kJka7 TIL that there is a genetic mutation which vastly reduces armpit odor. A mutation disabling the “ABCC11” gene changes the chemical structure of armpit sweat, inhibiting the action of skin bacteria. Notably, this mutation is mostly found in East Asian populations