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TIL the Americans spend more money on slot machines than on movies, baseball and theme parks combined.

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9wDEG TIL Gabe Newell said he knew "a sea change" was coming for PC gaming distribution, in 1995, when Doom (and id Software's 12 people) was estimated to be installed on more computers than Windows 95 (and its 500-person sales teams). By 2011 Steam had between 50-70% of the market for downloaded PC games
QJW5e TIL in 1974 Egypt issued a passport to Pharaoh Ramses II. He died more than 3,000 years ago, but his mummified body needed a passport to fly to Paris for some repairs. On that special Egyptian passport, the pharaoh’s occupation was listed as "King (deceased)."
j66LR TIL; in the 1970s there were four "Airport" disaster movies. In real life, all the planes went back into passenger service. Eventually 3 of the planes crashed, including the Concorde which crashed outside of Paris in 2000, killing all 107 people on board.
X0aDR TIL that the H.R.152 - Hearing Protection Act is actually about gun silencers and removes silencers from the definition of firearms for purposes of the National Firearms Act.
5ggn TIL Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps is a veteran of the Civil Rights movement, stating “the Scripture doesn’t support racism.”