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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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KYOEQ TIL about Richard Proenneke, who in 1968 in his 50s moved from the Midwest to AK to live off the land.
R7xgQ TIL there was a black samurai named Yasuke. He was owned by a Jesuit missionary who gave him to the Daimyo, Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga took an interest in him and made him a samurai, teaching him Japanese and giving him a home and a katana.
MeRy8 TIL that "old-person" smell is real. And there's "middle-aged person" and "young-person" smell as well.
grOgL TIL in 1987, United Airlines purchased Hertz, Westin, and Hilton for $2.3 billion, and rebranded itself as Allegis Corp., a one-stop fly-drive-sleep travel company. Stock prices tanked, investors balked, and it was dismantled less than 4 months later.
kOeVW TIL Thomas Jefferson wanted the Constitution rewritten every 19 years