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TIL TGI Fridays stopped requiring employees to wear flair after Office Space came out and customers began making jokes about the flair

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XdKk TIL pure water does not conduct electricity and is an excellent electrical insulator.
oBgeo TIL birds are immune to hot peppers.
d80v7 TIL About the Lykov family, who isolated themselves in the Russian Taiga to escape religious persecution. They lived in total isolation for 40 years and were unaware that WWII had even happened. One daughter still lives there — at 74 years old.
rmly TIL - J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, gave the rights to Peter Pan to a hospital, so they could always have income from the royalties and remain open.
Xv8E TIL George Lucas approached Mark Hamill in 1983 and asked him if he’d like to play an elderly, mentoring Luke to hand the story to the next generation. When Hamill asked “When?”, Lucas replied with, “Oh, around 2011.”