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TIL the casting director for "Parks and Recreation" called Michael Schur and said, "I just met the weirdest girl I’ve ever met in my life." He met with her and she made him feel very uncomfortable for about an hour. Aubrey Plaza was cast as April.

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OoVkR TIL according to the US Flag Code "The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery", and "No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform"
J1Pvl TIL in 2012, a tour group visiting Iceland announced that they had lost track of a group member. A woman decided to help with the intense police search to find the fellow traveler. The search lasted for several hours, before the woman realized that the person everyone was searching for was herself.
6le7 TIL that “The Goldwater Rule” forbids psychiatrists from offering opinions on somebody s/he hasn’t interviewed. It was created in response to Barry Goldwater suing Fact Magazine for $75K after publishing “1189 Psychiatrists Think Goldwater is Pyschologically Unfit to be President” in 1964.
Z9Ov TIL Police respond to complaints about a building sustaining damage from what appeared to be a minor earthquake. When they arrived, they found Nikola Tesla smashing his oscillator to shut it off.
p64G TIL one person has made 47,000 edits to Wikipedia to correct a single grammatical error: the misuse of the phrase “comprised of”