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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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E1OPV TIL NASA was sold faulty rocket parts for almost 20 years. An Oregon-based company falsified aluminum certification tests for nearly two decades.
neDRr TIL that William Shatner did a spoken word cover of Golden Earring's Twilight Zone
VMZ7B TIL about the Gray Goo Scenario, a hypothetical apocalypse scenario in which all life on earth is consumed into a gray biomass created by self replicating nanomachines
ANGY7 TIL the King Cobra is not a cobra. It is the sole species of its genus and happens to look a lot like a cobra.
BrYeK TIL that in a "computational data-centric analysis" of the most significant figures in history "adjusted for recency bias", Ronald Reagan was ranked 32nd, above Paul the Apostle, Genghis Khan, Thomas Edison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Galileo, and Buddha