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TIL Nolan Bushnell, the man that founded Atari Inc. also founded Chuck E. Cheese

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VBm TIL Scotland has it’s own species of wildcat, and there are only 400 left.
Z898B TIL of the 'Tamworth Two', a pair of pigs that escaped from a truck headed for a slaughterhouse in England. They were on the run for a week before they were eventually caught. The Daily Mail newspaper bought the pigs, which were then sent to an animal sanctuary to live out their lives
o5rL TIL - In an effort to solve the extremely high corruption rate problem, Georgia (the country) once fired it’s ENTIRE police force. It turned out that the police WERE the problem and the move actually worked, as the country’s corruption almost vanished in the following three months with no police.
eya5 TIL there are adventure playgrounds in Europe where kids can essentially do whatever they want, including light fires, in a junkyard-like setting.
wP4P TIL that Charles Darwin died feeling guilty that he knowingly inbred 10 children with his 1st cousin and passed on crappy genetics which killed 3 of them before the age of ten.