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TIL that Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001) was the first ever video game to include the word "Bisexual".

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GAP14 TIL that Water might not be wet. This is because most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other objects wet.
16ABV TIL that in the 16 years before the Berlin Wall was built, 3.5 million East Germans fled the country through West Berlin. In the 28 years after it was built, only 5,000 managed to escape.
VrnQ TIL Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, once walked out of a job interview at the biggest law firm in Paris. “I was told I should never expect to make partnership because I was a woman. I thought to myself: ‘You don’t deserve me, I’m going…why would I work with that kind of attitude?”
yQkjJ TIL about the IKEA effect which makes people think anything they make themselves has increased value.
4OnX TIL The half brother of the last Emperor of China is still alive at 94 years old