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TIL that the video game market accounts for more than half of UK's entertainment sector and is worth more than the music and movie industry combined, according to new report.

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8g44 TIL deuterium, one of the ingredients of nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and “viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor, a gallon of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline.”
5YGpQ TIL that the world’s longest marathon took about 54 years. Heat stopped Shiso Kanakuri during the 1967 Olympics. Ashamed, he went back to Japan without alerting authorities. Sweden then put him on a missing persons list for over half a century before he was found and given the chance to finish.
NAjQ TIL A decade before the SR-71 first flew, the Military had a Mach 4.3 capable Ramjet created to test its own air defenses. It was so effective, it was cancelled to avoid embarrassing the military’s own air defenses any further. The man who designed it went on to create the SR-71 spyplane.
KOWYa TIL that people in sotland have 421 words for snow!
G0J TIL: The shortest correspondence in history is between Victor Hugo and his publisher. Hugo was on vacation when Les Misérables was published. He telegraphed the single-character message “?” to his publisher, who replied with a single “!”