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TIL that, adjusting for inflation, the arcade game Pac-Man took in $7.6 billion, which is greater than the combined inflation adjusted revenue of the movies Gone with the Wind and Avatar.

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4knAN TIL that in 1898, a novel was written with a plot eerily similar to the Titanic disaster 14 years later. The name of the ship in the novel was the Titan.
Jjrk TIL the Singaporean military was established by Israel
QNKV9 TIL that non-naked mole rats do exist.
yQl8e TIL Generation labels are made up by the marketing industry. Ad agencies wanted another catch-all term for the new members of their target age group. For example, Generation Y was too hard to brand, it didn’t have the spark of “Millennials”. These labels are not based from science.
ddxQ TIL While serving as the POTUS in 2002, President Bush choked on a pretzel causing him to lose consciousness and hitting his head on the way down. The only reason he survived is because the pretzel dissolved allowing air to enter back into his lungs where he regained consciousness.