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TIL that the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent continuously clapping is 3 hours and 16 minutes, set by Grace Lubega Matovu (Uganda) in 2023

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B7XW TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.
VrP8 TIL since 1981, Mexico does not extradite to countries that are seeking the death penalty, and has successfully defended 400 of its citizens charged with a capital offence in the United States.
7Eeb TIL that J002E3, originally thought to be an asteroid orbiting the Earth, is actually part of the Apollo 12 mission that returned to Earth orbit after 31 years of orbiting the Sun
VMDok Today I learned that female trout fake orgasms to make male trout prematurely ejaculate so the females can continue their search for a more preferred coupling
R5bx4 TIL that NBC will become the first "Big Three" network to not offer a soap opera in its on-air programming on September 12, 2022, when it will send "Days of Our Lives" exclusively to Peacock. The show has aired nearly every weekday since November 8th, 1965 and has over 14,000 episodes.