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TIL that Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s were founded by the same guy.

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Xkgj TIL In Norway, 99% of electricity production is from hydroelectric plants. They plan to increase annual production by 15 terawatt-hours (12%) by 2020 and could double installed capacity if they build new cross-border links to ship the surplus electricity abroad.
164jd TIL that the last woolly mammoths survived on isolated Wrangel Island off Siberia until approximately 2000 BC, long after their mainland extinction around 10,000 years ago. This means they coexisted in time with the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza (about 2560 BC).
rRYMd TIL vocal jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was born with perfect pitch so precise that the band musicians she worked with would tune their instruments to her voice.
Z8joB TIL it can take up to 2,700 liters of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single t-shirt.
6EE57 TIL that in many countries, it is illegal to label any product Champagne unless it both comes from the Champagne region of France, and is produced under the rules of the appellation.