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TIL in the movie "Elf" the Gimbel's manager wears a "Wanda" name tag because Wanda Sykes was originally cast in the role

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BrLre TIL that these rectangular plates on sidewalks are to warn people with vision impairment that they are about to walk out onto a street.
KYMjB TIL that Lewis Stone, who played Mickey Rooney's kindly old father in the Andy Hardy films, died of a heart attack while chasing the neighborhood kids off his lawn.
4Xa7g TIL 15 years after the US allied with France to defeat Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, the US switched sides by allying with Great Britain to defeat France in the "Quasi-War of the Atlantic". The United States won both times.
Y7JWd TIL that cats were mummified along with their owners in Ancient Egypt
MQgB TIL Russian Salyut Spacecraft carried working machine guns