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TIL Papa John lives in a literal castle, but doesn’t provide his employees with health insurance.

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x68a7 TIL the Seinfeld episode "The Contest" was based on a real life bet Larry David made against a friend of his to find out who can go the longest without masturbating. The amount of the bet is unknown, however it lasted only a few days resulting in a David victory.
y1gJ TIL in 1913 a man was charged for threatening to kill his wife and newborn son with a knife. The mother remarried and the boy changed his name to that of his step-father. That boy went on to become the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford.
E1BbP TIL the company that produces the Jenga game initially wanted to change its name to "Timber!" or "Tumbling". This is because it didn't indicate how the game was played and people wouldn't know what it meant. The original creator refused because she thought the name would gain meaning later on.
XdlQ TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, a phenomenon in which an incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence
E11d0 TIL that to get Tyrian Purple, you had to boil thousands of snails just to get a few grams of pure dye of it.