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TIL Princeton, an Ivy League university, doesn’t have a business, law, or medical school

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8epbL TIL Dutch artist Francis Alÿs pushed a block of ice around Mexico City for 9 hours to symbolize the frustration that everyday residents of Mexico City endure in an effort to improve their living conditions
8eLBb TIL about "General Average," a 19th century maritime law requiring all stakeholders (cargo owners, shippers, etc.) to share losses if part of a ship or cargo is sacrificed in an emergency to save the whole.
dQJj TIL That a TPS report actually stands for “Testing Procedure Specification” or document IEEE 829, something Mike Judge really used when he was an engineer working on military jets out of college.
mxwwR TIL of John R. Brinkley, who convinced a bunch of people that having goat testicles implanted in them would increase their virility.
8drV TIL That Joshua Sawyer, the project director and lead designer of Fallout: New Vegas personally created a mod for New Vegas that fixed some major oversights made by the developers due to the incredibly short development cycle of the game, which is speculated to have only been 18 months.