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TIL the first videogame console with the possibility to install videogames over the internet was the Atari 2600 in 1983

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xXWg TIL that Thomas de Mahy last words before being guillotined were, ‘I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.’
4X4xa TIL Don Rickles befriended mobster ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo when he made fun of Gallo in his stand-up against everyone’s warnings. Gallo took it in good humor and invited Rickles out to dinner. He declined, and that night the restaurant erupted in a gunfight, killing Gallo.
mxR6M TIL That "Ye" would have actually sounded like "The" and not "yee". It was a typographical style as to why a letter Y was used instead of the thorn character which made a "th" sound
aVyM TIL Microsoft tested cross platform play between the Xbox and PC platforms. It was cancelled when the Xbox players got crushed every time due to a mouse being more accurate and faster than a controller.
OG0YY TIL Byzantine emperor Basil II "the Bulgar Slayer" after the battle of Kleidion divided 15,000 war prisoners into groups of 100 men, blinded 99 men in each group and left one man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home.