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TIL that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is ranked as the highest and second highest reviewed game of all time by Metacritic and GameRankings

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WaEN TIL in 1880 Alex Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, also invented the photophone, a device that transmits sound using visible light. Although he called it his greatest invention, it wasn’t until the 1980s, over a century later, that it precursed fibre optics, the backbone of the modern Internet
E1bwo TIL that the Groom of the Stool (person in charge of helping the English monarch poop) was a coveted position of power and influence due to the close, intimate access to the King/Queen.
MWEW TIL Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated
p8jbA TIL that Sam Raimi, the Coen Brothers, Kathy Bates, Frances McDormand, and Holly Hunter all shared a house in 1980s Los Angeles
Me8ka TIL about the Black Hole Era, a period of time in the future where the universe will spend the vast majority of it's overall life shuttered in absolute darkness with all the stars in the night sky having died out and space itself dominated by nothing but super massive black holes for eons upon eons