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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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d8ax9 TIL Drowsy driving is as dangerous as Drunk driving.
X4EE TIL that the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” comes from St. Ambrose who would switch his Milanese patterns of fasting to those of the Romans whenever he stayed in Rome.
9Yx4X TIL Stephen Hawking liked "The Theory Of Everything" so much that he allowed the filmmakers to use his trademarked computerized voice on it. He called the film "broadly true" and emailed the filmmakers that there were certain points when he thought he was watching himself, which left him tearful.
YZ4W [TIL] Surya Bonaly is the ONLY figure skater who has ever landed a one-bladed skating backflip.
E10no TIL that on December 10th, 1963, 15 days after it was lit, the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame in Washington, D.C. was accidentally extinguished by a group of Catholic schoolchildren who were sprinkling it with holy water.