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TIL Rob McElhenney who plays the homophobic character Mac on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was raised by a lesbian couple

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dLDZ TIL for Star Trek’s groundbreaking interracial kiss, NBC worried that Southern affiliates might refuse to air the episode, so they filmed the scene with and without the kiss, but stars Nichols and Shatner consciously sabotaged the non-kiss takes so they could only air the kiss version.
laGV TIL in 1925 two young brothers found the Stanley Cup in their basement and scratched their names on it. In 1940 their names were engraved on it as members of the champion New York Rangers. They then peed in the cup with their teammates.
ADNG4 TIL Of the 5 Quadruple Doubles in the NBA since 1972 (when Blocks & Steals became official), 2 were by Hakeem Olajuwon in the same month
xVM5k TIL since the 1950s, every baseball in an MLB game has to be rubbed with mud harvested from a secret location, and the same family has been doing it for three generations
Lk9xd TIL Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, served all but six weeks of his term without a Vice President. His VP, William King, died of Tuberculosis in Cuba only six weeks after the inauguration.