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TIL TV Show “Seinfeld” made US$2.7 billion on reruns through June 2010 since it went off the air in 1998.

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op8o TIL - To demonstrate the sharpness of stone tools, Archaeologist Dr. Adrien Hannus elected to have major surgery done with obsidian blades rather than surgical steel scalpels. Obsidian is the sharpest substance known to mankind.
EgQvW Today I learned that South Africa has celebrate "National Cleavage Day" since 2002.
RmE8 TIL of Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
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