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TIL Steve Carell didn't actually want to leave The Office after 7 seasons - instead, NBC didn't renew his contract because an executive wasn't a fan of the show and didn't want to pay his high salary.

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LvQQ TIL a study conducted by a linguist and a sound engineer concluded the perfect male voice would be a combination of Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons
Xxd8 TIL test pilot Thomas W. Attridge, Jr. shot himself down while testing the F-11 Tiger. After firing a short burst at 13,000 ft, Attridge accelerated into a dive and leveled off to fire another burst at 7,000 ft where he was struck by the bullets he’d fired earlier.
Bgr8K TIL that the Morse code at the beginning of the B-52’s song “Planet Claire” was a repeating message transmitted from a military radio station in Nova Scotia that translated to “Any and all allied warships, this is Canadian Forces Station Mill Cove…”
P178n TIL: The Sedlec Ossuary contains the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings such as a bone chandelier. Some arrangements were by a half blind monk in 1511. It is now a tourist attraction and featured in movies.
WAZX TIL Elephants are one of the few (if not the only) animals who can understand human pointing, without any training.