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TIL of the "world's rudest waiter," Edsel Ford Fong, who greeted visitors with an admonition to "Sit down and shut up!" He was known for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", criticizing people's menu choices and then telling them what they should order, amongst others.

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V6LD TIL Seth Rogan is making an R-rated Pixar-style film about “food in a grocery store that believes when you get purchased all your wildest dreams come true. They don’t realize that you get eaten. And its about them slowly realizing what happens in their after life.”
ENkW TIL the group that recorded “It’s Raining Men” changed their name to The Weather Girls after recording the song
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y7b8 TIL John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ was originally called 'Something that Happened’ because nobody can really be blamed for the story’s events.
E1vGx TIL there is a dialect of Arabic that isn't naturally spoken anywhere, but which is understandable to all speakers of Arabic. While people from Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen or Syria might not understand each other, they can understand the same news report.