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TIL Seinfeld ended the last episode with the same bit as the beginning of the pilot episode.

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mxg9Y TIL People Used the Postal Service to Mail Their Children
WkaMd TIL that the largest island of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu was originally named "La Austrialia [sic] del Espíritu Santo" - after both the monarchy of Austria (ancestors of the Spanish monarchs) and the Great Southern Continent, Terra Australis (which Australia was later named for)
KOyQ6 TIL about a British man who bought a ceramic pot at a junk sale for less than £4 and used it as a toothbrush holder until learning it was actually made in the Indus Valley of present-day Afghanistan about 4,000 years ago. It's thought the pot was originally brought to the UK by British tourists.
N7bKQ TIL that the space shuttle flew 135 missions with a flight computer that had less than 1% of the computing power as an XBox 360.
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