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TIL that Jennifer Aniston was offered a spot as a featured player on Saturday Night Live, but turned it down to accept the role of Rachel on Friends

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oRBGE TIL The Blue Angels, the U.S. Flight Navy Demonstration Squadron, formed in April 1946 as the Navy Flight Exhibition Team. They changed their name after seeing the New York nightclub, The Blue Angel. The team was first introduced as the Blue Angels during an air show in July 1946.
l7nYG [TIL] Tigers, Lions, and other big cats don't have slitted pupils like house cats, but round pupils like us.
QJWpe TIL at the founding of the first McDonalds, Ray Krok and a Coca-Cola executive named Waddy Pratt entered into a "Gentleman's Handshake" agreement that all McDonalds would offer Coca-Cola exclusively. Both companies continue to honor this agreement.
R7516 TIL the spot where Julius Caesar was assassinated is now a cat sanctuary for 250 cats.
KOlDQ TIL The Romans believed that the vein in the ring finger on the left hand ran directly to one's heart, that they called the vein of love. To solidify a union based on love, they'd place the ring on that finger that housed the vein of love to signify the romance the newly married couple shares.