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TIL: Tetris blocks actually have names and they're incredibly weird

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p8Q98 TIL You need to count all up to 1000 to get the first number that contains letter A
6E6Om TIL Martha Mitchell effect is the process by which a psychiatrist labels the patient's accurate perception of real events as delusional and misdiagnoses accordingly.
Eg0Px TIL that the 1971 Doors song "Riders on the Storm" partially references an American hitchhiking killer, Billy "Cockeyed" Cook in its lyrics. In 1950-51, Cook murdered six people, including a family of five, on a 22-day rampage between Missouri and California.
kOwkg TIL black holes aren't totally black, as energy is released to compensate for mass that enters the black hole, and this faint glow is called Hawking radiation after Stephen Hawking, who figured it out
OGZma TIL that the rapper Shyne, famous for going to jail as part of Diddy's posse as well as writing for many famous artists, converted to Orthodox Judaism in prison, moved to Jerusalem to study the torah up to 12 hours a day, and now has become a politician and leader of the opposition party in Belize.