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TIL NBC offered a role to James Gandolfini to replace Michael Scott on "The Office", but HBO paid him $3 million to not take the role

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J1a6Q TIL the word “vagina” originated from the Latin word for “sword sheathe.”
lK0a TIL there is a real time model that shows the Earth’s wind patterns
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QBBX TIL that when Apple was buying land in NC for their data center, a couple refused to let them buy their 1 acre plot of land. Apple continued to give offers and, after the couple rejected them all, they asked them to set their own price. Apple then ended up paying $1.7 million for one acre of land.