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TIL Seinfeld wasn’t actually a “show about nothing,” it was a show about how comedians get their material.

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ajJM TIL: A Study about butter, funded by butter industry, found that butter is bad for you
aGJL TIL that E.T., Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Poltergeist, and The Thing were all released on the same month and competed with each other at the box office.
17L4 TIL that the the Samurai Sword is one of the most technologically advanced swords despite being an ancient sword making technique
loV9r TIL in 2000 a man attempted to hijack a Philippine Airlines flight, yet after being denied access to the cockpit robbed the passengers at gunpoint before jumping out of the plane to his death attempting to use a parachute he made himself out of nylon and curtains.
E5nP TIL during the First Opium War of 1839, 19,000 British troops fought against 200,000 Chinese. The Chinese had 20,000 casualties, the British just 69. The war marked the start of the “Century of Humiliation” in China.