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TIL TGI Fridays exists because the founder was single and wanted to create a place to meet women

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VMLrD TIL Richard Nixon's administration had a master list of all of the president's main opponents among both people and organizations. Hunter S. Thompson felt disappointed not to have been on it.
XWpQ TIL on March 12 1981, two different comic strips, with the same name and same general idea were published on the same day, one in the USA and the other in the UK, created by two different artists, who had absolutely no knowledge of one another. The comic strip in question is Dennis the Menace.
OA4L TIL: There is a library that was built on the US/Canadian border. Exiting the library through the opposite entrance requires one to report to the country’s customs thereafter.
dDLm7 TIL that the head chef of the Windows on the World restaurant at the North Tower managed to survive the 9/11 attacks because he was having his glasses repaired at the WTC concourse when the first plane hit.
5VYeP TIL that hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that “pees”