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TIL the chance to sit in the first booth at Monk’s Cafe — and thus be included in a Seinfeld scene — was auctioned off for charity throughout the show’s run

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Z8QGG TIL that pillow fights were banned at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2015 after 30 people were injured.
X0kmE TIL that during a 2011 music festival, K-pop singer Taeyeon from Girls’ Generation‘s was nearly kidnapped off stage in the middle of a performance.
X8xR TIL Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA released nearly 12 million documents. One set of documents revealed research of possibility that “insane” people may be experiencing multiple “levels of reality” and their brains can’t process this information, leading to mental instability [PDF]
oxmW TIL A reddit user, named Alan Schaaf, created imgur. He created it because the available image hosting services sucked at the time.
rP4w TIL the US presidential veto has a 96% success rate. Of 2574 vetoes Congress has only overturned 111.