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TIL the original Applebee's location, opened in 1980 in Decatur, GA, had an old-timey drugstore theme and was named T.J. Applebee's RX for Edibles and Elixirs.

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ANWVl TIL in 1965, a young Kris Kristofferson swept floors at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. There, he met June Carter and asked her to give Johnny Cash a tape of his. She complied. After weeks of no reply, Kris landed a helicopter in Johnny’s front yard, gaining his full attention.
OYNg TIL The shortest regularly scheduled flight in the world is 1.7 miles and takes less than two minutes from takeoff to landing.
w4ZW TIL that the oldest alliance in the world is between the UK and Portugal, and is over 700 years old.
b9aA7 TIL Karl Dönitz became fuhrer after Hitler’s suicide, & his cabinet continued to have daily 10am meetings for about a month even though they had no power. They discussed how Germany should proceed after the war, despite the Allies showing absolutely no interest in adopting their plans
oRVMR TIL Ferdinand Rudow was a German entomologist notable for the poor quality of his taxonomic work. Although he named almost 200 species of wasps, almost all of them have been synonymized with other species.