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TIL when “Seinfeld” was halfway to its end Jerry Seinfeld was dating a 17-year-old.

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4k0WX TIL about the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, where three keepers mysteriously disappeared in 1900, leaving no trace of their fate.
R5Mv6 TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch
yQAaw TIL of Albert Cashier a trans man from Clogherhead, Co. Louth, who joined the US military and fought in the civil war. Assigned female at birth, he changed his identity on the boat over and lived the rest of his life as Albert, being buried at 71 with full military honors.
mXjO TIL that this subreddit should be called “Today I Learnt” as learnt is the past tense of the verb (Today I Learnt) and learned is the past participle (Today I “Have” Learned)
Me8MB TIL that though 355 of 100,000 people identify as trans, only 9.2 request or receive surgery or hormone therapy