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TIL In 1988 Denny's faced a huge problem when they closed their doors for the first time in 35 years on Christmas & 700 of the existing 1221 chains did not have locks or doors.

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BgJDL TIL an intern at a television station falsely reported the Aircrew names of an Airplane that crashed at the San Francisco airport in 2013
rR1Me TIL when the head of Universal Studios saw a film by a young student named Steven Spielberg, he called him in for a meeting, offered him a 7-year contract and told him, "a lot of people will stick with you in success; I’ll stick with you in failure."
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