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TIL Kaley Cuoco’s Penny did not appear in the original The Big Bang Theory pilot. The first pilot included two female lead characters - Katie, "a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable interior" and Gilda, a scientist colleague and friend of the male characters.

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9Zbp TIL Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary company, successfully quelled civil war in Sierra Leone. The United Nations pressured Sierra Leone’s government to replace them with peacekeepers. Civil War quickly broke out again upon EO’s dismissal.
jY8X TIL Detroit has put in the most bids to host the olympics without ever hosting them
m1mMY TIL The first piano was called a “Gravicembalo col piano e forte” which means “harpsichord with soft and loud.” in Italian. The name was shortened to pianoforte and then to just piano.
pYyyG TIL that the Stanley Cup is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded professionally in North America, commissioned in 1892 by its namesake the Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley of Preston, 16th Earl of Derby
8eRl8 TIL that Matt Harrington was selected in the Major League Baseball draft in five consecutive years, without coming to an agreement with any of the selecting teams – the only baseball player to have been drafted so many times without signing a contract.