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TIL that the founder of Chuckee Cheese was also involved in the creation of Atari

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NXAjM TIL Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983) was first made as Smokey IS the Bandit, where Jackie Gleason played a dual role of both Sheriff Justice and a new Bandit character, effectively chasing himself. Confusion from test audiences made them reshoot the movie with Jerry Reed as the new Bandit.
oRNao TIL On Shrove Tuesday 1229 some University of Paris students got into fight over a bar tab and attacked a tavern. The students had benefit of clergy but the city guard killed some of them. The students responded with strike for two years until the school was given independence from local authority.
awm6y TIL eminem would let his daughter hailey listen to his music when she was little, but if he felt the song had too much swearing in it he would make her a clean version so she could listen to that on her walkman instead... what an og, great dad vibes...
x0bg TIL a one-eyed, mildly autistic doctor from California called the US housing bubble ahead of time and made approximately $100 million as a result.
AD8Dl TIL of Edward Jones, a teenager who broke into Buckingham Palace multiple times in 1838-1841. The first time he was only 14-years-old and managed to steal some of Queen Victoria’s underwear.