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TIL 83% of console gaming revenue in 2023 was digital ($44.16 billion of the global total $53.2 billion).

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lWX5 TIL that John F. Kennedy was assassinated 52 years ago today. The last thing he heard before he died was Texas Governor John Connally’s wife Nellie saying “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.”
Egn1W TIL We call heavy armoured fighting vehicles Tanks to keep their nature secret. The British pretended that they were water carriers or water tanks.
NXXVP TIL that the central portion of the Jewish bar mitzvah ceremony, reading from the Torah scroll, dates back only to the 18th and 19th century, although the ceremony has ancient roots and the first use of the term was in the 15th century
65Y TIL a 34 year old man once spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator in New York - “He walked onto an elevator one night, with his life in one kind of shape, and emerged from it with his life in another.”
8aMQ8 TIL President Gerald Ford's golden retriever, Liberty, used to receive fan mail at the White House, and would respond with "paw-tographed" photos.