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TIL We Used To Sleep In Two Segments Every Night Until Electricity Was Invented

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d8BD9 TIL White Castle was the country’s first fast food chain when it opened in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas
KOaO6 TIL some frogs have teeth
Me717 TIL the motto among writers and cast of Seinfeld was "no hugging, no learning" (one writer said, "There will never be 'a very special episode' of Seinfeld"). In one scene during the episode "The Secret Code", Kramer tells Jerry, "Well, at least you learned something." Jerry replies, "No, I didn't."
9YOXB TIL that Jennings Lang, the guy behind the 1970's Airport movies, had an affair with actress Joan Bennett. When her husband found out in 1951 he fired a gun in to his testicles.
R0B7 TIL TIME Magazine prepares covers for different world markets, and U.S. covers are often much lest substantive (& often trite) when compared with those around the world