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TIL that RuPaul and Cory Booker are cousins
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TIL NBC renewed ‘The Office’ for a second season, despite mediocre ratings for the first season, because they anticipated Steve Carell’s film, 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin’, would make it a ratings success - which it did.
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TIL that Disney World has a highly complex underground tunnel system so that cast members and crew can travel throughout the park without ruining the magic of Disney World.
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TIL that during WWII, nearly 1,000 Polish children were deported to Siberian gulags. Starving and displaced, they found refuge in India, welcomed by Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, who built them a home, gave them schooling, and treated them as his own.
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TIL that in 1953, Jerry Stiller met actress-comedienne, Anne Meara, and they married in 1954. Until Stiller suggested it, Meara had never thought of doing comedy. Before Seinfeld, the comedy team Stiller and Meara, was successful in the 1960s and 1970s. They were married together for over 60 years.
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TIL Yahoo owned Geocities, paying $3.9 billion for it in 1999, shutting down the US platform in 2009, then the Japan platform down in 2019.