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TIL Chuck E. Cheese was started by a founder of Atari

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9YoPB TIL over 200 species of animals self amputate limbs to escape danger
eo7n TIL that slavery was still practised in South Korean salt farms as recently as 2014.
oBYjL TIL that for Cleopatra, the time of construction of the pyramids in Giza is more remote than our present day.
a8vab TIL Rockall is an uninhabited islet in the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone (EEC). In 1997 the British recognized Rockall wasn't an island and gave up all EEC claims it could have made, Rockall is the only case of a state voluntarily downgrading an insular feature to "a rock".
m1O9Y TIL about the doorway effect a known psychological event where a person's short-term memory declines when passing through a doorway moving from one location to another when it would not if they had remained in the same place.