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TIL Playing Tetris for three minutes stops you craving sex, alcohol and food

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ZpKEa TIL On April 1, 1945, the Battle of Okinawa was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. This invasion was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
jNJRv TIL Kenny G's 1989 recording "Going Home", is China's unofficial national closing song for businesses such as food courts, outdoor markets, health clubs, shopping mall, and train stations.
yVgGw TIL in 2009 a Maryland wastewater treatment plant was found to be inhabited by over 100,000,000 orb-weaving spiders, the largest recorded aggregation in history. The entire facility was covered in dense sheets and volumes of webbing, leading to it being nicknamed it the "Back River Arachnotopia".
WW0X TIL that Facebook secretly conducted a huge psychological experiment on its users to see if it could alter their emotional state.
GG41 TIL that ‘Mein Keimpf’ by Adolf Hitler is the second-worst rated book on GoodReads. Number one is 'Dianetics’ by L. Ron Hubbard.