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TIL that The Office line about "that sportscaster Marv Something, that bit that lady" refers to Marv Albert known as "the voice of basketball". He was fired from NBC in 1997 for pleading guilty to assaulting and biting more than 1 woman.

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rPyM TIL of BuzzWinkle, a moose from Anchorage Alaska who frequently roamed the city drunk from eating fermented crab apples and more than once was found ripping down Christmas lights with his antlers or passed out in the street downtown
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R7dr4 TIL that in 2018, it cost 2.06 cents to make a penny. This means that the US Mint loses money from every penny they make (in 2018 they lost $90 million). Even more, this means that if you melted down a penny it would be worth more than its face value.