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TIL Elaine’s father only made one appearance on Seinfeld (in “The Jacket”) because the actor Lawrence Tierney “scared the living crap out of all of us,” said Jason Alexander. He stole a knife from the set and reenacted a scene from Psycho making threatening motions towards Seinfeld.

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xMPB TIL, Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was so notorious for cheating on his wife with attractive women who attended sobriety meetings that his colleagues later started calling this type of lechery the thirteenth step.
woGrE TIL high-level woodwind and brass musicians employ a technique called circular breathing, to be able to play continuously without needing to pause for breath, by blowing air out with their cheeks while inhaling through their nose
xNrw TIL:There is a character in the X-men comics who has been on the team for years but, due to his power everyone except professor X would forget about him.
1arvP TIL on Titan, the atmosphere can hold the equivalent of about 10 meters of liquid before rain forms vs. only a few centimeters on Earth. So Titan's weather is expected to feature torrential downpours causing flash floods, interspersed by decades or centuries of drought.
VM4pQ TIL that the United States has a law that allows it to attack the International Criminal Court if any of it's officials are detained there.