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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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D1WjY TIL Due to the plant hormone auxin, tulip stems continue to elongate after they are cut.
mxxLp TIL that Jackie the lion, one of the mascots for MGM, not only survived two train wrecks, an earthquake, a boat sinking, and an explosion at the studio, but also a plane crash that left him stranded in the Arizona wilderness for days
1an54 TIL Cuban cigar factories hire "lectores" who read stories to the cigar-makers. [Video, 2:15]
LZkr TIL Bobby Leach, the first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, died not from the fall, but by slipping on an orange peel and infecting his leg 15 years later
78mLO TIL attorney Albert T . Patrick was executed for the murder of William M Rice. Patrick was initially caught trying to steal the endowment for Rice University