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TIL Kramer from Seinfeld was based on co-creator Larry David's eccentric neighbor who was always trying to come up with get-rich-quick schemes.

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6ZEX TIL ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals so that they will open the carcass and leave the scraps more accessible to them.
VMvL0 TIL that Hayao Miyazaki, producer of the Studio Ghibli, used to be able to produce 10 minutes of animation per month. He can now only produce 1 minute per month, largely due to his age.
kOJo1 TIL Salvador Dali's (Full name: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) parents told him he was the reincarnation of his brother who died 9 months before he was born. Dali believed this to be true, stating "We resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections."
OoGEa TIL: the US government has paid out 7 billion dollars in settlements to people poisoned by the US nuclear industry
Nyj8 TIL In medieval England, the punishment for a baker who cheated customers could be losing his hand. To protect against this, many bakers would add an extra loaf to an order, making a “baker’s dozen” 13.