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TIL that when the 24-7-365 restaurant Denny’s decided to close for Christmas in 1988 many stores realized that they didn’t have any keys, or even locks, since they never used them. 700 of the 1221 restaurants needed to get new locks installed for the holiday.

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dPr8 TIL that if a norwegian loses his/her job or can’t find a job, the state will pay you a salary until you find a job. It’s called NAV.
XE9jr TIL Jamie Foxx saved a man from a burning truck. Brett Kyle was speeding and hit a drainage pipe, rolling his vehicle multiple times in front of Foxx’s home. The car started on fire, Foxx cut the seatbelt and pulled Kyle out of the truck seconds before the truck went completely up in flames.
R7dKl TIL: In 2010 a man was sentenced to 2 years for stabbing a man who knifed him in Counter Strike. He spent 6 months tracking down his rival's real life location. The judge called him a "menace to society"
R50j7 TIL the Crest House, located at an elevation of 14,120 ft. (4,304 m.) near the summit of Mount Evans, CO, was the highest elevation business structure in the world. Finished in 1941, it was partially destroyed in a propane fire in 1979. Its ruins were later converted to an observation deck.
JRg1 TIL the USS Pueblo crewmen stuck up their middle finger in photos when they were captured in North Korea. They said it was a “Hawaiian Good Luck sign”. Then the TIME magazine ran a photo and wrote the real explanation. The next day the Koreans found out what it meant, and the crewmen were tortured.