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TIL that Seinfeld's lawyers allowed the real J. Peterman to review the script for every episode that featured him.

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gBy4 TIL That the drug lord Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Columbia’s $20 billion foreign debt in order to avoid extradition to the US.
d8g98 TIL during the early 1900s, hat pins were used by women for self-defense; Mademoiselle Gelas even wrote a manual advising a combination of jiu-jitsu, hatpin stabbing and umbrella work to fend off men.
neJy7 TIL When Dutch biking company VanMoof began shipping their bikes to the USA a lot of them were arriving to their new customers damaged, so they decide to put an image of an expensive, flat-screen television on the cardboard boxes.
xZEo TIL that the Dutch are the tallest people on the planet
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