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TIL in 1972, Nolan Bushnell founded Atari with a princely investment of $250. Within five years, the company was worth $28 million.

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MmWA TIL A scientist once gave mice a perfect Utopia but in 560 days it degraded into a mice Dystopia:
P1jL TIL that despite the fear projected by mass media, virtually all of the few known candy poisoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children’s candy.
l7Gp1 TIL that "cryptomnesia" is a psychological phenomenon where your brain "borrows" old memories and makes you think they’re brand-new ideas. It’s like accidentally plagiarizing your own brain.
PPwE TIL The Clarkstown Police Department of NY is one of the highest paid police departments in the country. In 2008, Police Chief Noonan made $374,261.88, and he wasn’t even the highest paid.
PWde TIL: Creationism’s monkey-typewriter argument was refuted by a 1980s computer program that randomly generated phrases while preserving the positions of individual letters. The computer wrote Hamlet in just 4.5 days.