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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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1neW TIL - TIL -Peter Reyn-Bardt confessed to the murder of his missing wife based on human remains found by workmen behind his back garden. The remains were later carbon dated and found to be Roman. Reyn-Bardt was convicted of his wifes murder based on his confession.
pYWZA TIL Both the East and West borders of Suriname have been in dispute for over a century. The issues primarily derive from the primacy of rivers.
VMexB TIL that explosive cartridges can be inserted into a B-52 bomber's engines to get them up and running more quickly, if needed. The "cart start" reduces takeoff time from about an hour down to ten minutes.
pA9O TIL that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the captain of a Russian sub, not knowing whether war had broken out, decided to launch a nuclear torpedo. Vasila Arkhipov, the second-in-command, didn’t consent and convinced the captain to surface, preventing nuclear war.
woGY TIL Omar bin Laden (Osama’s son) was denied citizenship in Britain in 2007 because “Omar failed to provide his father’s permanent address”