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TIL That TGIF restaurants banned flair (buttons) because of the movie Office Space (1999)

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b6MGa TIL about the Grafton castaways, a real-life version of Gilligan's Island. Shipwrecked in 1864 on the Auckland Islands for almost 20 months, 5 men survived by building a thatched hut with glass windows and bookshelves. They crafted a forge to work metal, tanned leather, made soap from seashells etc.
OoDKX TIL that the people on house hunters already bought a house before the show and the rest is staged
y1Qw TIL that a 59-year-old man entered a hospital complaining of chest pains, and was found to have a three-chambered reptilian heart, as opposed to a four-chambered mammalian one.
MEka TIL that Alexander the Great loved his horse Bucephalus so much that he gave him a state funeral when he died and named a city after him
epP5k TIL about the Returning soldier effect: a phenomenon which suggests that more boys are born during and immediately after wars.