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TIL TBS sped up Seinfeld by 7.5% so they could add 2 more minutes of commercials.

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eap6 TIL that a circular geological structure 40km in diameter exists in the Sahara Desert, and is of disputed origin
QNMap TIL Slovenia has more major governmental subdivisions (201) than there are nations in the U.N. (195), and that Serbia, Uganda, Latvia and Philippines also have over 100 subdivisions
eEWn TIL that a shirt made in the 1300s would cost $3,500 to make today.
a88Ly TIL that the United States has offered to purchase Greenland from Denmark twice, once in 1946 and again in 2019 due to its strategic location in the Arctic, the U.S. also occupied the island during WW2 from 1940-45 after the fall of Denmark and constructed Thule Air Base.
R7gDa TIL that Trevor Richards, a 16-year-old South African immigrant, got suspended from his Omaha, Nebraska school when he nominated himself for a “Distinguished African-American Student of the Year” prize. He was the only pupil in this school to have ever lived in Africa.