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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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6EGa8 TIL that Alexandre Dumas (Author of The Three Musketeers, etc.) was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, hero of the French Wars of Revolution and the highest ranking officer of African descent ever to serve in a European army
J17K4 TIL the Roman Republic practiced human sacrifice to win the Second Punic War, by burying people alive.
5Vvxp TIL that the concept of machines “hallucinating” was first noted in 1995. A researcher discovered that a neural network could create phantom images and ideas after it was randomly disturbed. This happened years before the term was applied to modern AI generating false content.
ANReg TIL for the encore of their concert in Paris, "Ni**as in Paris" was played ELEVEN times. In a row.
epZvE TIL Men at Work's "Down Under" uses the melody of the nursery rhyme "Kookaburra" and the band got sued for it