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TIL Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17-year-old girl when he was 39 years old.

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BEoK TIL the reason that NORAD annually tracks Santa Claus’ journey from the North Pole is because Sears printed an ad to talk to Santa on his private line, with a wrong phone number that was actually CONAD’s top secret hotline that would only ring if there was a national crisis
VM7bp TIL I learned about the Delft Thunderclap, an explosion in Delft, Netherlands where a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city and killed Rembrandt's most promising student, Carel Fabritius and destroyed almost all of his works.
jN46v TIL Iceland has Europe's largest banana plantation
d8w1d TIL: During the First Gulf War, the US lost 20 Bradley vehicles. Only 3 of those were destroyed by the enemy, the rest were the result of friendly fire accidents.
N71mM TIL Newton kept an encrypted list of sins in his private diary which was partially decoded only in 1964