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TIL of Yossele, the Holy Miser. Everyone in town despised him for being a miser. After he died, the entire town begged at his grave, repenting their sins against him.

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YpLax TIL the secular holiday Festivus was not invented for Seinfeld. It was created in the mid sixties by author Daniel O'Keefe as a way of rejecting the commercialism of Christmas with his family. His son later was a writer for Seinfeld and introduced his family's tradition.
0wGaA TIL that the human body contains more bacterial cells than human cells.
4keJ5 TIL the movie No Hard Feelings stars royalty - Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark, grandson of the late King Constantine II.
gZ1X TIL That Frano Selak has survived 7 near death experiences, including being ejected from a plane midflight and then won the Croatian lottery with the first ticket he ever bought. He then gave away his fortune saying “Money cannot buy happiness”
GAMJg TIL all humans alive on the planet today are related to, and descended from, a single individual who lived as recently as 3000 years ago, according to the most realistic scientific models to find the "Most Recent Common Ancestor"