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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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NX6Ke TIL the original story of "Frankenstein" was written by an 18 year old runaway and mother, Mary Godwin ("Shelley" after marriage) when her pregnant stepsister's boyfriend, Lord Byron, created a contest for his friends to write the best ghost story after a cold summer night talking of gruesome things
4k6M5 TIL of "The Feast of Herod", a relief sculpture by Donatello, which shows King Herod being presented with the decapitated head of John the Baptist. It's in the Baptistry of St John in Siena, Italy.
wLQk6 TIL In 1981 a scientist who was researching medical uses for magic mushrooms was killed in a robbery. The top suspects confessed to the crime on tape and their fingerprints were at the scene yet they were never charged, the DEA later admitted they destroyed the evidence linking them to the crime.
XEBKE TIL Ken Jennings, the Jeopardy champion who shattered all the records for the game, refused to come out of retirement for the Jeopardy: Greatest Of All Time championship tournament, because he thought he'd lose badly. He ended up crushing, winning in only four rounds out of a possible seven.
nyWY TIL The Deepest Recorded Ocean Depth is 35,814 ft (10,916 m). At that depth you experience 1100 atm, which is almost the same pressure commercial water cutters use to cut steel.