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TIL Street Fighter II in 1993 eclipsed sales of Call of Duty in 2011 (adjusted for inflation)

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O4je TIL The most abundant mineral is 51% of the Earth but had no official name until 2014 because there was no way to get a natural sample from 400 miles beneath the surface
pL9Q TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb and that electric lights had already existed for more than 70 years before he filed his patent in 1878
v1D7r TIL that there is a giant solar power plant in China that looks like an adorable panda
44Z5 TIL that during the first spacewalk Alexey Leonov had a suicide pill in his mouth to swallow in case he was unable to reenter the capsule forcing his comrade to abandon him in orbit
J1jWk TIL after English King James II converted to Catholicism he was forced into exile in 1688 and his descendants were barred from royal succession. Today there is an art historian in Germany who would be King of England (instead of King Charles III) if James had stayed in the Church of England.