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

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QWQ6 TIL there was a Supergirl film released in 1984. It was critically and comercially panned, which is probably why no one speaks of it when referring to the original Superman film series.
OG5a7 TIL Sir Nicholas Winton, widely renowned for saving Jewish children in Czechoslovakia in 1939, was never bestowed upon the honorific "Righteous Among the Nations", for it is exclusively awarded to people of non-Jewish descent.
GYkmN TIL the writer of the Chili’s Baby Back Ribs jingle wrote it in 5 minutes, had the songwriting rights taken away from him, and has never had baby back ribs from Chili’s.
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