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TIL the original plot for the TV show Frasier had Kelsey Grammer playing a paralyzed media mogul cared for by a street-smart nurse in a Manhattan penthouse.

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V88D TIL the first monkeys in South America likely drifted from Africa on a floating island of vegetation
4wbw TIL that jellyfish should be kept in cylindrical tanks because they can get stuck in right angled corners
n6d9 TIL a Brazilian man once held a woman hostage for 10 hours with a Sega Master System light gun
BQmr TIL The Censored Eleven, eleven Loony Toons cartoons witheld from syndication in 1968, were only shown past that as a special presention in a single theater in 2010 (Now available on Youtube)
e0KE TIL the security director for Morgan Stanley in the WTC predicted airliners crashing into the towers, drew up a detailed plan accordingly, and used it to swiftly evacuate all but 13 of 2700 Morgan Stanley employees and hundreds more. He died when the buildings collapsed.