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TIL of PlayCable, the first online gaming service developed for intellivision in 1980. It allowed you to download games to an peripheral device using your Cable TV subscription

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80wV TIL that although you can’t change the genes you inherit, you can change whether they are turned on or off.
gronL TIL that the world's first official airmail flight was conducted in 1911 in India, from Allahabad to Naini, over a distance of 13 km. The letters bore an official frank "First Aerial Post, U.P. Exhibition, Allahabad. 1911"
7rnXp TIL of Federal Express Flight 705. In April 1994, a disgruntled, suicidal employee tried to hijack and down the plane, brutally attacking the crew with a hammer. The wounded captain put the DC-10 in a dive and rolled it to incapacitate the attacker before landing successfully.
oBDdE TIL, North Eastern Indians look like South East Asians and are usually discriminated by Indians from the mainland.
xkAg TIL At the height of their power, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than there were members of the United States’ Standing Army, causing the state of Ohio to outlaw the agency due to fears it could be hired as a private army or Militia.