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TIL Shrapnel is named after a person.

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LQ77m TIL that after Steve Carell left “The Office,” James Gandolfini of the “Sopranos” was reportedly offered the role and turned it down.
W7peo TIL that the founder of Post Cereal (C.W. Post) spent time at the sanitarium run by Dr. John Kellogg (of Cornflake fame), and was inspired to make his first product (a cereal-based drink called Postum) because he hated the coffee there.
loak1 TIL the two-part Stress relief episode had the highest viewers of any other The Office episode(20M vs. 5-8M average) during its air. Also, Toby wrote this episode and that makes sense because the entire build up is towards a Michael Scott roast in the end.
NXJe TIL in 1939, the Nazis had named their annual rally the “Rally of Peace”, to reiterate to the German people & the world their desire for peace. But it was cancelled on short notice. Why? One day before the scheduled “Rally of Peace”, Germany attacked Poland and ignited WWII
j6EGE TIL Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow is a parody of an old Chinese movie called The House of 72 Tenants (1958)