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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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7rGEP TIL that at a point, breathing in Delhi, India was equivalent to smoking 45 cigarettes a day.
ZL7o TIL That the death of Henry Moseley, the man who discovered atomic number and thus why the order of the periodic table worked, was “the most costly single death of the war to mankind generally”
GYnYE TIL Thurl Ravenscroft who sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" was also the voice of Tony the Tiger
xV1Y1 TIL the Australian Lyrebird can impersonate practically anything he hears to catch the attention of a possible mate, even going as far as making a camera shutter noise or a chainsaw taking a tree down.
XmkR TIL There’s a small sculpture on the moon named “Fallen Astronaut”. Made by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck and placed by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971. It is the only sculpture on the moon, yet it remains relatively unknown.