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

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R656 TIL in 2005 United Airlines terminated all of its Employee Pension Plans, which covered 134,000 workers
Ylvx TIL in Albania some young girls are raised as ‘Sworn Virgins’ which meant they gained all the rights and privileges of men - things like freedom to vote, drive, conduct business, earn money, drink, smoke, swear, own a gun, or wear pants, in return for a life of celibacy and 'pretending’ to be male.
rlm4 TIL, Koreans reckon the pregnancy period as one year of life for infants, and age increments increase on New Year’s Day rather than on the anniversary of birthdays. Thus, one born immediately before New Year’s Day may only be a few days old in western reckoning, but two years old in Korea.
Ooaa7 TIL of the "Gates of Hell" in Turkministan. In 1971, a Soviet drilling rig accidently punctured an underground natural gas cavern. To head off a environmental catastrophe, the Soviets set the gas on fire. The crater has been burning continuously for 47 years since.
9YXPm TIL Chick-fil-A makes "in memoriam" videos for their discontinued menu items