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TIL that “Frasier” was going to be based in Denver. Far from Boston to prevent NBC from demanding that other characters from Cheers make guest appearances on the new show during its first season. After first choosing Denver, the producers ultimately chose Seattle as the setting.

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N71RJ TIL Hasbro, the US kids toy company, once owned Death Row Records, the infamous gangster rap record label
mbko TIL During the 1980s the Swiss army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside the country Liechtenstein. The incident was said to have been resolved “over a case of white wine”.
loXAr TIL in Pittsburgh in 1905, America’s first motion picture theater opened. It was named the Nickelodeon. The name was created by combining the cost of admission, a nickel, with ‘odean’ which is the Ancient Greek word for theater.
BgBwW TIL that whales and sturgeon found in the United Kingdom are automatically designated as the personal property of the monarch.
R5rD1 TIL there is a child in England named: Rickrolled