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TIL that Jim O'Heir (Jerry Gergich on Parks and Recreation) originally auditioned for the role of Ron Swanson.

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m1GJO TIL of Philip Spivak, a Republican Chicago-area attorney who lost running for County Judge, then changed his name to Shannon O'Malley, switched to the Democratic party, and won the same election 8 years later
8aMXK TIL about John Edmonstone, an ex-slave born on a plantation in Guiana who taught Charles Darwin taxidermy in Scotland. Darwin used taxidermy to preserve different specimens of finches he found on Galapagos, discovering 12 distinct species and used them as an example in his theory of evolution.
XE9jr TIL Jamie Foxx saved a man from a burning truck. Brett Kyle was speeding and hit a drainage pipe, rolling his vehicle multiple times in front of Foxx’s home. The car started on fire, Foxx cut the seatbelt and pulled Kyle out of the truck seconds before the truck went completely up in flames.
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kOvB4 TIL Hawaii has the coldest record high temperature (98 F/ 37 C) of any US state