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TIL the Seinfeld episode “The Revenge” was based on an experience by screenwriter Larry David, who once quit his job at Saturday Night Live, felt he made a mistake once he reached home, and returned the following morning as if nothing had happened.

pZYO TIL Mark Zuckerberg said that if you’re 30 or older, you’re a slow old man, far less intelligent than young people, and successful companies should not employ you. He turns 30 tomorrow.
VMXnZ TIL George Lucas hated the Star Wars Holiday Special so much he said, "If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it."
OoX1X TIL in 2013 a New Jersey man used an illegal GPS jammer on his pick-up, blocking his location from his employer. Unfortunately, it also disrupted a ground based aircraft position system at Newark Int., as he often drove near the airport. He was fined by the FCC almost $32,000 and fired from his job.
8O0P TIL in 1987 a barge left New York for North Carolina hauling 3,168 tons of trash. NC turned it away, and it traveled for 7 months trying and failing to find someone to take it. It sparked a national conversation about landfills and recycling.
VB6ap TIL a South African hunter led an expedition in Zimbabwe where they encountered a charging herd of breeding elephants he shot at the elephants, and one of the elephants lifted him with its trunk. Another hunter shot the elephant, causing it to collapse on Botha, crushing him to death.