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TIL that the U.S. military originally planned to provide personnel, vehicles, and costumes for the film ‘Independence Day’, but backed out after producers refused to remove the script’s Area 51 references.

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Brmvy Today I learned that the running joke of Garry Gergich on the hit television show Parks and Recreation having his name constantly mistaken for Jerry is a reference to how the political term Gerrymandering (pronounced as Jerry-mandering) today mispronounces its intended namesake Gerry ("Gary").
bA7p TIL in 1963, San Francisco Giants Manager Alvin Dark joked, “they’ll put a man on the moon before [Giants pitcher] Gaylord Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, less than an hour after Neil Armstrong’s historic moon walk, Perry smacked his first career homer.