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TIL Jerry Seinfeld refused to give any of his castmates a share of the insanely lucrative syndication royalties. To this day the other stars have made almost no money from the show outside of their per-episode salaries.

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b9jlZ TIL: Point-blank range does not mean extremely close range. It means any distance over which a certain firearm can hit a target without the need to compensate for bullet drop.
ANQQx TIL In the movie Memento, only the color sequences move backward and they start off as objective. The black and white sequences move forward and start off as subjective. It all converges at the end.
E15MX TIL of "cargo cults", originated in early 20th century tribal communities on a number of Pacific islands, whose followers believe that either an American WWII soldier named John Frum, or Prince Philip, are their saviours.
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KMb6 TIL J. R.R. Tolkien was an Anarchist.