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TIL Comedian writer Billy Domineau wrote a spec script for Seinfeld called "The Twin Towers" that is set in the days following 9/11

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epO75 TIL that Charles Darwin conducted excavations at Stonehenge in 1877 to test his hypothesis that earthworm bioturbation is largely responsible for the continual sinking and burial of surface objects across the world.
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Ypwgd TIL the Darien Scheme in 1698 was Scotland’s sole attempt at colonization. The effort failed but cost £400k (£71m inflation-adjusted) – about 20% of the nation’s capital. It crippled Scotland’s economy and was a major factor in its Act of Union with England in 1707, thus forming the United Kingdom.
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5VXm9 TIL that lower class Germans are stereotyped as giving their children names that sound exotic in German, such as “Kevin.” Prejudice against people with such names is strong enough that the term “Kevinism” was coined to describe it.