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TIL that Jay-Z made a feature song for "Tron Legacy" that was rejected

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MeVM8 TIL the restaurant chain TGI Fridays stopped its waiters from wearing “flair” a few years after the movie Office Space came out because people wouldn’t stop making Office Space references about it.
9YnJr TIL that during the peak of the cold war, one of the tasks given to Niel Armstrong was to place two Soviet medals on the moon to honour their fallen Soviet competitors.
rNEjM TIL that in 1953 "Atomic Annie" a nuclear-capable artillery piece, shot the first and only nuclear artillery shell from a cannon.
BgZBK TIL The Great Wall of China is often regarded as one of the most impressive architectural feats in human history
jNPgQ TIL that Annie Oakley first rose to fame at the age of 15 after beating a traveling sharpshooter, whom she later married.