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TIL Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Goldeneye, Fallout, Banjo-Kazooie, Prey (which would not be released for another 9 years), and Duke Nukem Forever (which would not be released for another 14 years) were all revealed at E3 1997 over the span of three days

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pEJ8 TIL Mantis Shrimp can see cancer and scientists are developing a camera that can be attached to smart phone to see cancer as well.
16MMd TIL that between the abdication of Margrethe II of Denmark on 14 January 2024, and the election of Māori Queen, Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō on 5 September 2024, there were no female sovereigns in the world. This was the first time this had been the case in over 200 years.
dDxjd TIL that the Seine, Rhine, Thames, Elbe, Meuse, Amstel and Sheldt Rivers were all tributaries of a now lost mega river called the Channel River that flowed through the now sunken Doggerland to the Bay of Biscay, eighteen thousand years ago.
nDeb TIL in 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, and Freud were all living at the same time in Vienna, Austria
1aQLd TIL that consoles are sold at a loss that they make up for through peripherals and licenses