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TIL that buried within the code of GoldenEye for the N64 is a fully-functional ZX Spectrum console emulator complete with ten games. It wasn’t discovered until 2012.

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a8OGA TIL when Coney Island's Steeplechase amusement park burned down in 1907 the park's owner placed a sign the next day that read "On this site will be built a bigger, better, Steeplechase Park. Admission to the burning ruins — Ten cents"
QJd1X TIL 11% of US working age adults are on antidepressants.
vP59r TIL that many early phone lines were "party lines" that anyone who picked up the phone could listen in on; customers had to pay an extra monthly fee to upgrade to a private line.
l70va TIL that lightsabers came from the pulp magazines! George Lucas cribbed the concept of "laser swords" from stories in 1930s pulps such as "Magic Carpet," "Weird Tales," and "Amazing Stories."
15ZX TIL 95% of the ocean is unexplored.