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TIL that the “Tetris” tune is actually a 150 year old Russian folk song in which a street vendor flirts with a customer while haggling over goods.

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aw7O9 TIL the orange is a hybrid of the mandarin orange and a fruit called the "pomelo"
p8Kye TIL that Sagittarius A* - the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way - has a mass 4 million times that of our Sun, but a diameter only 31 times the Sun's. It is so dense that it could fit in the space between the Earth and the Sun, but can attract things 50k light years away.
0j TIL that between 1975-1982, Russia had six probes land on the surface of Venus, surviving temperatures of 855 °F and successfully taking photos
KYXgE TIL about worm grunting. This is a procedure when a strip of metal is rubbed on to a wooden stake to create vibrations. These vibrations mimic the sounds of moles digging which drives the worms to the surface.
8lbV TIL that a group of American journalists formed a secret society ‘The Order of the Occult Hand’ whose only goal is to slip the meaningless phrase “It was as if an occult hand had…” past editors and into published articles