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TIL Olivia Colman's real name is Sarah Sinclair (née Colman). She had to adopt a different stage name when she began working professionally because Equity (the UK actors' union) already had an actress named Sarah Colman.

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9d9M TIL - There is a ghost town in northern British Columbia, Canada that was abandoned almost overnight in 1983. Everything is still there and the power is still on. The whole town was purchased by an American who wants to turn it into a resort for intellectuals.
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.
v1ny4 TIL In 1984, Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky released a computer game called "Mindwheel" where the player traverses the minds and memories of deceased individuals. The goal is to retrieve the Mindwheel, which “contains the secret of the world’s best values.”
ZpJD4 TIL: in 1919, famous eugenicist Charles Davenport published a study claiming that being a sea captain (thalassophilia - "love of the sea") was a recessive sex-linked genetic trait because it appeared only in males and could skip generations. He dismissed all criticism as “uninformed.”
MvPb TIL that Denise Nickerson, the girl who played Violet, chewed so much gum on the set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that she ended up with 13 cavities after filming.