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TIL Cablevision was actually founded by Charles Dolan, who was also the creator of HBO

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xvkg TIL that Aubrey Plaza’s character in Parks and Rec (April Ludgate) was written into the show only after the casting director met her and insisted she somehow be put in the show.
DOKP TIL: Hitler was well aware of what his reputation would be after the war. Albert Speer recalls: “We were alone, silently watching twilight darken into night…Hitler says: ‘If I fail, I shall be the most despised man in history.’”
kOjXW TIL that a man called Washington Irving is primarily responsible for perpetuating the idea that the Earth is flat. Evidence would suggest that the world has been known to be a sphere since as early as the Ancient Greeks, Romans, and even Chaucer.
VMXk8 TIL the job of police officer isn't even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the USA, with a population of 379 million only 1 million people work in law enforcement in the USA, and according to FBI in 2016 only 118 officers died in the line of duty of which 52 were accidental and 66 were felonious.
MYW0 TIL the first documented cases of cancer were found on papyrus manuscripts in Egypt dating back to 3000 BC. In these manuscripts, 8 cases of breast tumors are mentioned that were removed by cauterization with a tool called the fire drill. The writing says about the disease, “There is no treatment.”