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TIL a single strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto

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Me717 TIL the motto among writers and cast of Seinfeld was "no hugging, no learning" (one writer said, "There will never be 'a very special episode' of Seinfeld"). In one scene during the episode "The Secret Code", Kramer tells Jerry, "Well, at least you learned something." Jerry replies, "No, I didn't."
5w58 TIL in 1994 a passenger was killed by a bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight. This led Philippine police to discover a plot to blow up 11 airplanes in 48 hours over the Pacific, and another plot, which they shared with the FBI in 1995, to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
kOJo1 TIL Salvador Dali's (Full name: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) parents told him he was the reincarnation of his brother who died 9 months before he was born. Dali believed this to be true, stating "We resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections."
QrOX TIL The man who invented the revolving door hated holding doors open for women.
E15DX TIL there was a massive lacrosse game between two tribes, Ojibwe vs Sauk, that was actually a ruse employed in order to capture a British fort in 1763