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TIL we could cure world hunger with just 30 billion dollars per year.

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rNEpd TIL 1978, when Atari's then-corporate parent, Warner Communications,refused to open additional locations, they sold the rights of Chuck E. Cheese to Atari Co-founder, Nolan Bushnell for $500,000. He was later joined by Atari's other Co-Founder, Gene Landrum, who came onboard as their CEO.
5VoMQ TIL ex-British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, helped invent soft scoop ice cream.
X0PQQ TIL that since 2020, a group of fifteen orcas have been ramming and biting boats in the Strait of Gibraltar, with four boats having been sunk and over 250 damaged.
4XLww TIL that Republicans are called the right, and Democrats are called the left, because of seating arrangements of various legislative parties in France in the late 1700’s. Supporters of the king sat on the right of the Speaker, and supporters of the revolution on the left.
nWlAr TIL about Raoul Whitfield, one of the earliest American hardboiled detective fiction writers. Close friends with Dashiell Hammett, he was briefly married to New York socialite Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer and created the character Jo Gar, a Spanish-Filipino detective in Manila.