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TIL: TGIF discontinued the use of “flair” because of constant remarks from customers quoting the movie Office Space.

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Brg9W TIL: That the Davy Crockett nuclear device was one of the smallest nuclear weapon systems ever built and was designed to be shot from a recoilless rifle delivering a yield of 10-20 tons TNT equivalent.
VGRp TIL ‘you’ was plural but used for singular, not the reverse. It was used to show respect until the singular 'thou’ became kinda rude. This is why we say “you are” for both cases.
xmx1 TIL the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail in one season was 67 years old at the time.
YR57 TIL for scorpions to reproduce, the male deposits a capsule of sperm on the ground, then wrestles a female on top of it.
GMPN TIL Adolphe Sax (inventor of the saxophone) survived a three story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river - all before the age of nine. His neighbors called him “little Sax, the ghost.”