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TIL Gene Roddenberry wrote words to the theme music to Star Trek to get 50% of the royalties. These words were never used

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xVr0w TIL that crate training a dog is a uniquely American custom that is rarely used in other countries.
9wZWr TIL in 1996, some characters were changed on the children's literacy program "The Letter People". Instead of vowels being all female characters and consonants being all male characters, a change was made to make half the letters male and half of them female. Junk food references were also replaced.
YpRZW TIL that the donkey came to represent the Democratic Party in 1828, when opponents of Andrew Jackson nicknamed him Andrew Jack-ass. Rather than reject this image, Jackson incorporated the donkey into his campaign posters.
yWpJ TIL that Hitler’s plan for Moscow was to kill all residents and replace it with a lake
MePVb TIL Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn's daughter Kevin was kidnapped from her home in 1993 with a $2.5 million ransom requested for her return. Instead of reporting the crime, Wynn quickly arranged delivery of $1.4 million in cash from the vault of the Mirage. She was returned unharmed.