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TIL Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld killed off George’s fiancé Susan because of her bad chemistry with Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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a7JL TIL that Tamerlane was a Turkish ruler whose tomb was discovered by Soviet archeologists in 1941. An inscription in the tomb read “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Two days later, the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the USSR.
epPy4 TIL that "heroin" was a brand name owned by Bayer until the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, when the German pharmaceutical company had to give up its trademarks for reparations.
vP6wr TIL Japanese Calligraphy Ink Is so expensive and it takes years to fabricate it
Z8Rvo TIL a Cadbury Flake will not melt
d8nEr TIL about Derek Bentley, who was hanged on 28 January 1953 for a murder he did not commit.