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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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PxLL TIL: Construction began on Gaudí’s stunning Masterpiece, the Sagrada Família Church, in 1882. By 2010 50% of the building was finished. It’s estimated to be completed in 2026
ePRE TIL In 1904, tea bags were invented accidentally. The inventor, Thomas Sullivan, decided that it was cheaper to send small samples to potential customers in silk bags instead of boxes. The recipients believed they were meant to be dunked and soon Sullivan was flooded with orders for his “tea bags”.
X0kXD TIL that reductio ad absurdum is when you attempt to reduce an argument to absurdity (I.e The Earth cannot be flat; otherwise, since the Earth is assumed to be finite in extent, we would find people falling off the edge.)
8e09X TIL the 22nd Amendment, in addition to limiting the president to two terms, also states that, if the president's successor serves for more than two years in their first term, they can only be re-elected once.
8joL TIL: Dr. Yamanaka was described as an incompetent surgeon. He later turned to research and discovered Induced Pluripotent Stem cells and received a Nobel Prize for it.