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TIL - The first game-only online environment was the Sierra Network (later known as the ImagiNation Network), which launched in 1991

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x69Wg TIL that in 2018, a family walking along the beach in Australia discovered the oldest message in a bottle, which had been thrown into the sea back in 1886.
KYL8w TIL Mark Ruffalo woke from a dream that told him he had a brain tumor. He got a CT scan the following day confirming he had a benign tumor behind his left ear. The tumor was removed, and he is deaf in that ear as a result of the surgery.
Bg0MK TIL the Nigerian government banned the Communist Party of Nigeria in 1966
gM4XX TIL Deaf / Blind UK residents cannot serve on jury duty because a translator counts as a "13th person in the room"
8e6lK TIL: BBC interviewed a man who married a fictional girl. In 2019, 12% of people in Japan reported falling in love with anime/game characters. According to Sociologist Masahiro Yamada, the rise in pseudo relationships is due to hard work life and a dwindling pool of well paid men.