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TIL "Parks and Recreation" was initially supposed to be a spin-off of "The Office" as requested by NBC. One idea was a broken copy machine from Scranton would break down in an episode of The Office and then end up in Pawnee, making the office equipment the spun-off character.

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Y7XL7 TIL While managing an American minor league baseball team playing against the Havana Sugar Kings in 1959, the manager Frank Verdi was wounded by a stray bullet shot during celebrations for the 26th of July National Holiday. The game was called off and the American team fled Cuba.
BgLlx TIL Half of pregnancies in giant pandas result in twins but the mother chooses the stronger cub and the other one is left to die of starvation.
EQwX TIL the Goliath Grouper fish was once called the “Jewfish” but had it’s name changed because it was thought to be too offensive
7rJxM TIL of Operation Wrath of God, or why Israeli Mossad agents are basically the badass spies we all thought only existed in movies. Motorcycle assassinations, silencers, car bombs, the works.
KYLEw TIL Cyndi Lauper best known for the song "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", was a big part of the success of (WWF at the time) WWE bringing them down the road to a multi-billion dollar origination.