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TIL that TGI Fridays dropped the 'button flairs' from the waiting staffs' uniforms due to popularity of the movie Office Space in which Jennifer Aniston's character quits her job due to frustration with the flairs

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lxe7 TIL a recent poll showed that most newlyweds did not have sex on their wedding night
4keL5 TIL about Pfeiffer syndrome, a rare disorder that causes the bones in the skull to fuse too early, deforming the head and face.
loVm7 TIL that Christopher Meloni will reprise his role for a new SVU-spinoff series, where Stabler comes out of retirement to lead an NYPD Organized Crime task force. I I would enjoy that as L&O:SVU is one of my favorite shows. This new one is L&O: Organized Crime.
9wKnM TIL Mincemeat pie was once preferred over Apple pie as the iconic symbol of American cuisine. This popularity was partly due to the 19th and early 20th century recipe's including actual meat and substantial quantities of booze (usually brandy but sometimes rum and/or Madeira).
8e684 TIL while exact numbers are not known, estimates indicate that nearly half of the remains of the dead in the US Civil War were never identified. This resulted from burials along marching routes or battlefields, and a lack of personal identification for soldiers