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TIL that 90% of video game sales in 2022 were digital.

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wLp76 TIL Operation Marigold, a failed secret attempt by a Polish diplomat which would've ended Vietnam War much earlier had it succeeded
aw5g0 TIL more than a dozen vulnerable people were involuntarily injected with plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project, in order to learn the human biological reaction to radiation poisoning
v1m9K TIL that Rosemary Kennedy - little sister to JFK - developed violent moodswings at 23. Their father secretly took Rosemary to the notorious surgeon Walter Freeman, who used an ice pick to disconnect her frontal lobes. The lobotomy disabled her & she spent the rest of her life in an institution.
R7g6a TIL that there was extensive research into a cigarette that wasn’t as cancerous, but the project was scrapped just before mass production because of threats by another Tobacco company
neG6o TIL that several years ago there was somehow a common cold outbreak at a research base in Antarctica after 17 weeks of complete isolation. No cause was found.