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TIL The Soup Nazi was first referenced in Sleepless in Seattle, 2 years before appearing on Seinfeld

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1WWV TIL YKK not only makes 90% of the world’s zippers, they produce the whole process - from smelting their own brass and building the zipper-making machines to making the boxes they ship in
0d1KL TIL during a hunting trip in 1913 the race car driver Camille Jenatzy hid behind a bush, made animal noises and was promptly shot by a friend, he died in a car on the way to hospital, fulfilling his own prediction that he would die in a Mercedes
ANKmB TIL that Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire were responsible for the deaths of about 10% of the global population in the 13th century.
l7j5K TIL that the French monarchy fell five times and was restored four times in the span of a century, from 1771 to 1871.