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TIL about the "GTA flu". This phenomenon occurs when a new game from a popular franchise is released and many people call in sick to their jobs to be able to buy and play the new game.

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bJMa TIL: The 2001 video game Ghost Recon takes place during a fictional 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia. In reality, Russia would actually invade Georgia that year.
P1Xxn TIL that the first Hollywood feature-film chosen for release using the newly invented DVD technology was Twister (1996).
nmw9 TIL that the Doctor Who theme wasn’t performed on a theremin, but instead was created by the manipulation of an analog tape containing a recording of a single plucked string, white noise, and several oscillators.
JYkZk TIL about the dangerous exploitative industry of Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa. Most of the labor is done by children for very little pay. The demand ever increasing , this mineral fuels the tech industry, cobalt is used for batteries for phones, gadgets and e cars.
b9kR9 TIL the daughter of Pakistan's ex PM used Typeface Calibri font to forge documents about illegal offshore companies. The documents were purportedly created in 2006. However, the font wasn’t publicly available to computer users worldwide until 2007.