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TIL Parks and Recreation was going to have a connection to The Office. Originally after trying to fix the Dunder Mifflin Scranton copier it was sent to a warehouse and repaired, then ended up in the Parks and Recreation Department in Pawnee.

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NZBN TIL that Condom use are determined more by nature of relationship than partners’ characteristics
6jmY TIL in 1931, an experiment was conducted in which a human baby and baby chimpanzee were paired to see if the chimp would conform and grow like a human. The experiment was stopped when it was discovered that the baby was instead learning from the chimpanzee.
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