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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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0w7pA TIL about C.V. Wood, one of the chief designers of Disneyland and who helped secure funding through corporate sponsorships. He was actually fired three months after the park opened after Roy Disney caught him embezzling and he took his expertise to build other theme parks such as Six Flags.
rNE5x TIL that the distance driven by the fastest cars at the 24 hours of Le Mans auto race is 500 miles greater than the distance from New York to Los Angeles.
7VWr TIL Tiririca, a Brazilian Clown, used slogans including “What does a federal congressman do? I really don’t know – but if you vote for me, I’ll tell ya” and “It can’t get any worse, vote Tiririca”. He became the second-most-voted congressman in Brazil’s history, with 1,348,295 votes.
OoDJ1 TIL Bonobos form all-female coalitions to target violent males as a counterstrategy against harassment.
aMbZ TIL When Roman Emperor Nero’s wife died, he found a boy looking like her, removed his testicles and had Him appear in public as his wife.