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TIL the average gamer is 34 years old and 72 percent are age 18 or older

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p8Xo4 TIL about the Windows XP wallpaper. The image is called "Bliss" and it's a supposedly unedited image of a hill found on the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area. The photographer, Charles O'Rear, says he took it on his way to visit his girlfriend. Eventually in 2000, he was contacted by Microsoft
neEe7 TIL 11,000 women were breaking Nazi codes in America during WWII. Among them was Elizebeth Friedman who cracked at least 3 Enigma machines and dozens of different radio circuits to decipher more than 4,000 Nazi messages saving millions of lives. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI took credit for it.
9mZD TIL Coca-Cola created a campaign to promote unity between India and Pakistan by using high-end vending machines which allowed people in both countries to communicate with each other in real-time.
jNeGM TIL there are various types of planned obsolescence, such as: contrived durability, prevention of repairs, perceived obsolescence, systemic obsolescence, and programmed obsolescence.
a8kb TIL Canada has a $300 Gold Coin with a Narwhal on it