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TIL Many College Professors Started Using Grade Inflation To Protect Bad Students From Being Drafted Into The Vietnam War

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QNKOp TIL a man in California tried to hunt Bin Laden with a Katana and Night vision Goggles
rRBJy TIL critics complained that a bronze statue of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal standing in San Francisco's Civic Center more closely resembled the Sumerian king Gilgamesh.
KOmwB TIL that in the 1940's Coca-Cola produced a version of Coke called White Coke at the behest of a Marshall of the Soviet Union
wAno TIL that Dr. Donald Unger won an Ig Nobel Award in medicine after systematically cracking the knuckles on his left hand and not his right hand for 60 years, demonstrating that knuckle cracking does not cause arthritis.
XymR TIL that in 1982 a scientist discovered an ‘impossible’ structure of matter and was universally mocked by the scientific community. In 2011, Dr. Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.