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TIL Nolan Bushnell founded Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, originally Pizza Time Theatre as a way to market Atari Games and as ‘A Disneyland on the local level’

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DX4V TIL Nissan.com is not owned by the car company, but by a single guy named Uzi Nissan. He has been fighting the car company in court since 1999
KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother
eVk5 TIL that Coca-Cola was sued over Vitaminwater being advertised as a “healthy alternative” to soda despite having 33g of sugar. Coca-Cola dismissed the suit claiming that “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage”.
XOk8 TIL that Mr. Rogers weighed himself in every day at 143 pounds for the last 30 years of his life. He found beauty in the number because there is 1 letter in the word “I,” 4 letters in the word “love,” and 3 letters in the word “you.” “I love you.”
ADGwo TIL that Karl Pilkington's brother was kicked out of the army for driving a tank down the high street to get a packet of fags.