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TIL that TGI Fridays banned “flair” because of the movie Office Space.

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9wlPM TIL about Mark Twain’s proposed Philippines flag during U.S. territorial expansion: an altered U.S. Flag with black stripes instead of white and skull and crossbones instead of stars.
VBlrB TIL Five mice, Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey, traveled aboard Apollo 17 Command Module "America" with astronaut Ronald Evans and still hold the record for the most orbits of the Moon (75)
Me0na TIL of Cliff Young, a 61-year-old farmer who won a 875-km ultramarathon wearing only farm boots and pants, and broke the previous record by two days.
Wk7LN TIL of Zabol, Iran, whose air quality is 12x more polluted than the worst town in the US, mostly due to an annual 4-month long dust storm
Qv9k TIL- Halley’s Comet has two correct pronunciations. It can rhyme with “daily” or “valley” since the discoverer, Edmond Halley, spelled his name 6 different ways during his lifetime.