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TIL TBS speeds up reruns of Seinfeld (and other shows) for more room to show advertisements

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yQYw TIL that a group of german soldiers planned a coup against the Nazi regime in 1938 but were told by the French and the British ‘forget it’ because they approved of the present situation in Germany and hoped to make an alliance with it against Communism
0PXy TIL In WWII, a Polish soldier volunteered to be thrown in Auschwitz and escape to prove to the Allies that the Holocaust was real.
j6MYj TIL In 2000,an American named Jupiter was in Kinsale, Ireland, bought all the lobsters destined for someone's main course, to free them back into the sea. "Aileen was taking the lobsters out and he was saying to her, `Be gentle, be gentle - don't hurt them.' "
X0B8P TIL Taoist myths say Lao Tzu was a virgin birth. By the mid-twentieth century, consensus had emerged among Western scholars that the historicity of such a person is doubtful and that the Tao Te Ching is a compilation of Taoist sayings by many hands, with an author being invented afterwards.
wojpM TIL that plants use arithmetic division to calculate the rate at which to use up starch at night