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TIL Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, is a doctoral student and has co-authored a paper on microRNA in HIV genomes.

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JYPg1 TIL in 1978 an undergrad student notified the chief structural engineer of Citicorp Center in Manhattan that the building would collapse in strong winds. Realizing the student was correct, the chief contacted NYPD and had a 10-block emergency plan drawn up while they quickly fixed the building.
wLaBo TIL Porsche Makes a $2,100 Hookah called the, "2.1 Shisha."
R5WO7 TIL During the casting process for Armageddon (1998) Michael Bay was not impressed with Ben Affleck's screen test, calling him "a geek". Jerry Bruckheimer convinced Bay that Affleck would be a star, but he was required to lose weight, become tanned, and get his teeth capped before filming.
yQKee TIL on the DVD release of Borat, there is a language option for Hebrew, but choosing it only results in a warning screen reading "You have been trapped, Jew!"
OvJe TIL that by 2020, the United Nation’s World Tourism Organisation estimates only 7% of the world will travel internationally.