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TIL in 1996, Chex cereal had an FPS game developed based on DOOM.

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yQEgp TIL that Caesar’s last words to Brutus (‘Kai su, teknon’, literally ‘You too, child’) may have been intended along the lines of ‘See you in hell, punk’, rather than as an expression of shock at being stabbed by one he had treated like a son, because the words ‘kai su’ often appear on curse tablets.
1Qm4 TIL that long before 1984 and Brave New World, there was a Soviet totalitarian dystopian novel. It was the first work of art banned by the Soviet censorship bureau and was almost completely forgotten as a result. It is also a very go and quick read.
wXjJ TIL of Turtle Ships, 15th century armored warships that were essentially fire-breathing sea tanks of their day.
780Wb TIL there are 'e-books' for the blind/visually impaired. The braille terminal is an electro-mechanical device that displays braille characters, usually by means of round-tipped pins raised through holes in a flat surface
pAv4 TIL when Skylab fell back to Earth it rained debris on a small town in Australia. The town, Esperance, fined NASA $400 for littering