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TIL Nolan Bushnell, the inventor of Pong, also gave us “Showbiz Pizza”, aka “Chuck E. Cheese”

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GYnaj TIL that an eyewitness to President Lincoln's assassination appeared on television in 1956 on a game show.
m1N6Y TIL that on April 23 1953 Dwight D Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 which banned homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors. An estimated 5000-10,000 people lost their jobs because of this policy, now known as the "lavender scare".
QJB5e TIL in 1677 the Dutch gave away Manhattan for a small Indonesian island
9PKG TIL An Oregon resident was sentenced to 30 days in jail after being found guilty of collecting 13 million gallons of rainwater.
7VVL TIL in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where undergraduate student were humiliated and subjected to “brutalizing psychological experiments”. The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.