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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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9wWwG TIL that from 1992-2014, $400 Billion dollars was given by the US Government To Telecom companies for Fiber Optic Internet that doesn’t exist
j6eYp TIL about Angus MacCaskill. Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man who ever lived, tallest non-pathological giant in recorded history, largest true giant to ever have lived, and the man with the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man.
LjQV TIL due to widespread videogame addiction, the Korean government banned anyone under the age of 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6 am.
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