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TIL Parks & Rec was originally planned to take place in the same world as The Office (US). The plan was that the copier machine at Dunder-Mifflin would break down, be recalled by the manufacturer, and then be fixed and shipped out to Pawnee, Indiana, where the show would pick up.

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Mep5A TIL Joey Ramone, singer of the Ramones, was born with a parasitic twin attached to his back.
4XX4w TIL Terry Gross from NPR's Fresh Air does all her interviews in a dark room and they are not face to face , or often even in the same state
5Y8br TIL when Led Zeppelin briefly visited India in 1972, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were largely ignored because the locals thought that they were hippies until they played at a local venue.
R5n69 TIL: about explosion welding. First observed during WW1 when shrapnel wasn't just stuck but welded. Now done in controlled sheets for comercial material.
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