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TIL, the video game industry, is taking over the entertainment world. The global games market is estimated to generate $152.1 billion from 2.5 billion gamers. By comparison, the worldwide box office industry was worth $41.7 billion, while global music revenues reached $19.1 billion in 2018.

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0dJby TIL Bread was invented in Egypt around 8,000 BC. The first examples of it were flat and unleavened, most closely resembling what we know today as chapatis in India or tortillas in Latin America.
9jQG TIL when Yuri Gagarin was a child, he and his family had to live in a 10ft x 10ft mud hut for 21 months after Nazis occupied their farm and home. He later grew up to become the first human in space.
N7de1 TIL the ancient Romans built statues of Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and almost conquered the city, in Rome itself to advertise their defeat of such a worthy adversary
kJ4wE TIL the "metals of antiquity" are gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury.
epR4L TIL that the United States has had at least one Nobel prize winner every year since 1936