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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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R7N59 TIL Macy's originally agreed to be the department store in "Elf" however one stipulation was that Santa couldn't be revealed as a fake. Jon Favreau was unwilling to change the content so he changed the store to "Gimbel's" and filmed it in the cafeteria of a Vancouver mental hospital.
e0OKL TIL that the hairstyle Perm is short for Permanent.
0XXN TIL Tommie Smith and John Carlos the athletes responsible for the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute were pallbearers at Peter Normans funeral. Norman was the white athlete on the podium with them at the time.
7rkNZ TIL one of the earliest "bust a cap" references is from the Texas Ranger who killed Bonnie and Clyde in 1934. "I hate to bust the cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down, however if it wouldn't have been her, it would have been us."
grAD7 TIL that Arch Hall Sr. (who is known for cult classics such as Eegah and The Sadist) was an honorary member of the Sioux tribe, and he received an Indian funeral when he died.