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TIL the Seinfeld episode The Implant popularised the term "double dipping", George gets in a fist-fight over the act

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8agP8 TIL Zardoz is a film about flying stone heads, barbarians, eternal life, a vortex, renegades, Beethoven’s 7th & Sean Connery as “Zed” learning to read & saving humanity in a red speedo, knee-high leather boots & pony tail
9YALB TIL the voice actors of Mickey and Minnie Mouse were married in real life
BrdZW TIL that the US has technically been a metric nation since 1975 but just hasn't enforced the system onto private companies and people.
Jak8 TIL the first item bought on Ebay was a broken laser pointer. The buyer? A collector for broken laser pointers.
OOma TIL during a training exercise in 1940, 2 Australian air force planes collided & locked together 1000ft in the air, yet pilot L. Fuller landed the entangled planes after all other trainees ejected. Fuller, aged 21, was commemorated, but died 4yrs later when his bicycle collided with a passenger bus.