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TIL that the first first-person shooter, Maze, was created in 1973. It included features like corner peeking, AI bots, and 8-player online play. In fact, it was so popular that DARPA had to ban it from ARPANET because half of all network activity for a month was between players at MIT and Stanford.

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GRKJ TIL that cows have “best friends” and get stressed when separated
d0yj TIL the sexual imagery in Alien film was intentional, screenwriter Bannon had said about it, “I’m going to attack the men in the audience sexually. I am going to put in every image I can think of to make them cross their legs. Homosexual oral rape, birth. The thing lays its eggs down your throat.”
W71jY TIL the unique, vibrant shade of blue known as "Voronet blue" used for paintings at the Voronet Monastery (Sistine Chapel of the East), Romania, contains a paint substance still unknown today. In 1488 builder Stephen the Great ("the athlete of Christ") finished the monastery in 3 mths, 3 wks, 3 days
1DJ4 TIL that after an unsuccessful attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1874, workers were hired to place the coffin further underground. They could not find a suitable area at first, so they simply set the coffin on the ground and covered it with lumber, disguising it as a woodpile for two years.
neJQG TIL that the pattern on dogs’ noses are unique to each dog. Like human fingerprints, no two are alike. Dog Nose Printing has already been adopted in some places in the United States to track lost dogs, as nose prints are a far more reliable method than dog tags for identification.