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TIL Seinfeld’s iconic Festivus holiday( episode “The Strike”). Didn’t appear until the Last Season. Which is notable for such a lasting meme coming at the end of a sitcom.

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GA9dN TIL The first album ever to be remixed in Dolby Atmos was Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus by Luca Turilli's Rhapsody in 2016. It was chosen because of the way Luca Turilli combines metal instruments with choirs and orchestras in a style he called 'filmscore metal'.
NX0w8 TIL of Paul Frampton, a Physicist at UNC Chapel Hill who was arrested for transporting cocaine after being catfished by a drug cartel pretending to be a young Czech bikini model.
xVLd1 TIL Costco’s $6,000 Doomsday Food Kit Only Gets Your Family Through Year One of the Apocalypse. The kit is delivered as two pallets of boxes that together weigh 1,800 pounds. To keep neighbors in the dark, Costco promises everything is “packaged discreetly.” The some products expire in 30 years.
4Xn1X TIL in 1981 the landlord visited the warehouse of Nintendo of America to collect overdue rent and berated the president, Minoru Arakawa, in front of employees. The new game, Donkey Kong, was about to be released and they changed the character's name to their landlord's name: Mario.
vPYG4 TIL Many schools don’t teach cursive writing anymore. When the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were introduced in 2010, they did not require U.S. students to be proficient in handwriting or cursive writing, leading many schools to remove handwriting instruction from their curriculum altogether.