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TIL that Jerry Seinfeld’s first name is Jerome

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6db7 TIL when monkeys were introduced to the concept of money, they used it for prostitution
nPDo TIL when 1978 TV series “Holocaust” aired in West Germany in 1979, a panel of historians would answer questions live afterwards. They ended up receiving thousands of calls from Germans saying this was the first time they heard about the Holocaust. “Holocaust” later became German ‘word of the year’.
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