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TIL the Spanish word for handcuffs is esposas ( wives)

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GYo77 TIL that Nichelle Nichols the original Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek was a recruiter for NASA from the late 1970's until the late 1980's and many of her new recruits were women or members of racial and ethnic minorities
OoM84 TIL Parks and Recreation was going to have a connection to The Office. Originally after trying to fix the Dunder Mifflin Scranton copier it was sent to a warehouse and repaired, then ended up in the Parks and Recreation Department in Pawnee.
WkaY8 TIL “Infantry” sounds like “infant” as typically in ancient times an army’s infantry consisted of soldiers too young or too inexperienced to ride a horse and be part of the cavalry.
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