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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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4XAw TIL; There is a tribe which worships Prince Phillip as a god
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