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TIL the writers of Parks & Rec didn’t know Nick Offerman could already play the saxophone when they made his character Ron Swanson a secret saxophone player

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JVy1 TIL An Australian study sent test subjects to bus stops where they boarded with a faulty bus card and asked the driver to stay on. 72% of whites were allowed to stay on, 36% of blacks, 51% of Indians, and 73% of Asians
rw6o TIL Amazon’s daily record for orders was more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. That day Amazon sold enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle.
ebLb TIL that in order for stores in China to stock/sell tampons they have to import them, as Chinese companies made 85 billion sanitary pads last year, but not one tampon.
mn6O TIL that Richard Dean Anderson was made an honorary Air Force Brigadier General for his role as Jack O'Neil on Stargate SG-1.
aVmy TIL welders are not allowed to get MRIs because of the possibility of microscopic metal fragments lodged within their body