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TIL Alec Baldwin offered NBC to have his pay cut so they could finish and film another season of 30 Rock.

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PYa6O TIL Doom in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was going to be the hunter who killed Bambi's mother but Disney objected
Eg8Gw TIL before "Max" (Multi Amenity eXpress), a Hitachi and Kawasaki's bullet train, went into retirement after 24 years of service as Japan's last double decker 240km/hr train, it had "last run" livery. Train fans and train operator employees bid the 1,634 passenger train farewell, a customary practice
grmlW TIL Calvin Coolidge called Americans and Russians "traditional friends" in his first radio address in December 1923. The Russian Empire supported the Patriots in the American Revolution, and the Union in the US Civil War in the 1700s-1800s.
b6J0E TIL that Starbucks incurred massive losses and failed miserably trying to expand into Australia.
m1YpR TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person verified to have been both a dwarf and a giant.