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TIL In 1993 then 38-year-old Jerry Seinfeld dated Shoshanna Lonstein—then 17 and a senior at the private Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan.

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PwxL TIL James Henry Hammond defender of slavery, former Governor, Congressman and Senator of South Carolina. Abused four of his nieces, took a slave as a mistress and later replaced her with their daughter, also a slave and had children with her.
ZpWyQ TIL the Nazis had an extremely successful leisure and vacation based organization that, by the time war broke out in 1939, had become the world's largest tourism operator. The year before, 1938, saw 10.3 million Germans take vacations paid for by the group.
16OWV TIL that the Batmobile is legally a character. When DC Comics sued a mechanic building replicas of Batman's vehicle, the courts ruled that the Batmobile has "physical as well as conceptual qualities" that make it distinctive, and is not merely a "useful article" (an ordinary car).
0dJyv TIL: The Akaname is a Japanese yokai (demon)... who licks the filth and scum present in bathtubs and bathrooms and translates to filth licker. It one story, it can transform into a beautiful woman who appears in a hot spring, offers to scrub a man's back, only to lick him down to the bones.
9Yl17 TIL during WW2 when Ford produced the Merlin engine they claimed they couldn't following the sent plans. Rolls-Royce, designer of the Merlin, assumed Ford was incapable of meeting their high standards, only to learn that the tolerances were too loose and didn't meet the precision required for cars