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TIL Larry David secured a $1.7 BILLION syndication deal after Seinfeld ended. Payments will be made until the $1.7B is reached.

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OoAAa TIL that one foot of the London Eye is on land owned by the South Bank Centre, who served the wheel's owners with a rent increase of more than 1500%, adding £1m to the bill.
ROlQ TIL in 1921, “Black Wall Street” was the wealthiest Black community in America before being attacked by an angry mob which killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed 35 city blocks.
xVlP0 TIL that the detonation of a suicide vest will often peel the face off the bomber and launch it, intact, away from the blast. This can be very helpful in identifying the bomber.
7BdO TIL that octopuses are very intelligent, and that in 1875 an octopus at the Brighton Aquarium would escape its tank when the guards weren’t around, eat the lump fish in another tank, then go back to its own tank before the aquarium opened
ay8o TIL that German internet users have a 23-year-old meme where they pretend the town of Bielefeld (330,000) does not exist