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TIL Pong was the first game created by Atari and was meant to be a warm up exercise for a new employee

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69EDJ TIL that the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that aa defendant's request "give me a lawyer, dog" was too ambiguous to be considered a Miranda request for a lawyer
8e0m4 Today I learned the first selfie ever taken was in 1839!
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eL1b TIL that early one morning in 2014 a Starbucks drive-thru customer decided to pay for the next customer’s order, which ignited an 11 hour long pay-it-forward chain that lasted from 7 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m. later that evening when customer No. 379 declined to participate.