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TIL that Jerry Seinfeld’s first name is Jerome

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OXr7 TIL Nicholas Cage, to avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.
DeEv TIL In the original version of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly bets the ring on the outcome of the Riddle Game, and they part on friendly terms. It was later revised to it’s current version to fit Tolkien’s planned sequel.
EOeW TIL Madagascar was first settled by people from Borneo (which is over 4000 miles away), not Africa (250 miles away)
aBrA TIL, there is plan to extract 7,250,000,000kg of plastic from the oceans in just 5 years.
DwDY TIL old people smell is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin