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TIL - GTA V is the highest grossing piece of entertainment ever created at over $6 Billion in revenue. Not just video games, but all of entertainment (more than any Marvel movie, music album, etc.)

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KO98Q TIL of the cult of Osiris. In the centuries before Jesus, an Egyptian cult emerged around a dying and rising god-made-mortal whose followers were baptized in order to redeem their sins.
E1V5P TIL, You lose 8 ounces of water from your body for every hour you fly That dry air saps the water from your body to the tune of about 8 ounces an hour. Which, is roughly two liters of water during a 10-hour flight (4% of your bodily water), and women can lose around 1.6 liters.
GKDQ TIL that two Canadian schoolboys hacked into an ATM using a manual found online. It took them so long to convince the bank they were serious, they were late back to school. So the bank wrote them a note.
78Wkb TIL the Sega Corporation was originally called Service Games with a focus on coin-operated amusement machines for servicemembers and moved to Japan after the US government outlawed slot machines in 1952.
1aYMO TIL two nuclear bombs were ejected over farms in North Carolina. Neither detonated. The military's investigation found that six of the seven steps required to detonate the bombs had been completed. There was only one trigger which had stopped the blast.