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TIL Chuck E. Cheese’s backstory is that he was an orphan and didn’t know when his birthday was. This made him sad so he started throwing birthday parties for kids

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nLOW TIL that the majority of Darwin Award winners, nearly ninety percent, are male.
E1kv7 TIL that if the US in 1920 were a country now, its real GDP per capita (not national GDP) would be somewhere ranked ~#160 globally, competing with countries like Syria, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, or Afghanistan.
mxBPx TIL that Pluto is legally a planet when it passes over the skies of New Mexico, whereas it is a dwarf planet for the rest of the world.
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