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TIL Alec Baldwin offered to cut his salary by 20% in order for 30 Rock to continue through season 8.

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MeXJa TIL that the term "Sushi-grade" is a marketing term which means little to nothing about safety or the quality of the fish. In fact, previously frozen fish is often safer than fresh fish to eat raw due to parasitic destruction during the freezing process.
wLp76 TIL Operation Marigold, a failed secret attempt by a Polish diplomat which would've ended Vietnam War much earlier had it succeeded
ANOD4 TIL an Ottoman cuisine named İmam bayıldı literally means "the imam fainted". The cuisine was named after a tale that a Turkish imam fainted after knowing how much olive oil his wife used to cook an eggplant.
No5E TIL One of North Korea’s largest exports is giant statues of foreign dictators.
nrRY TIL that in 2011 only 4 hate crimes were comitted against atheists in the united states, lower than any other hate crime motivated by religious bias and none of them were comitted against people