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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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x657k TIL Halo 2 was delayed due to a picture of a developer's butt
ZXvB TIL Four AH-64 Apaches helicopters were destroyed by mortar fire in Iraq, because US soldiers took pictures of them landing at their base, and posted the pictures to the internet. But the pictures were geotagged, enabling the enemy to determine the exact location of the Apaches.
oBrZ7 TIL Angkor Wat actually used a much greater amount of stone than every one of the Egyptian pyramids combined. On top of that, if also occupied a surface area greater than Paris in its entirety
9ZwX TIL the word “impossible” dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
nVNd TIL that in Florida you get a mandatory 10 year jail sentence if you flash a gun during an altercation and a mandatory 20 year jail sentence if the gun goes off; regardless if it hits anyone