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TIL that Colossal Cave Adventure, released in 1976, is the first well-known example of both interactive fiction and adventure games.

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jN4bQ TIL blinds in the up position makes the heat go towards the ceiling and allows for more privacy
JNvV TIL Tony Hawken, 57, former maths teacher divorced Britain’s wealthiest woman entrepreneur worth £1.1 BILLION because he doesn’t like being rich and prefers to eat in Wetherspoon’
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newed TIL Great white sharks rarely survive in captivity. Experts suspect being surrounded by glass might either confuse or overload the shark's electroreception system, which is used to sense the electrical signals given off by fish in the open ocean, not necessarily inside a glass box.
4kBWJ TIL that there exists a rare phenomenon called "sun pillars," which are vertical shafts of light extending upward from the sun during sunrise or sunset. These optical illusions are caused by the reflection and refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere.