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TIL that because David Letterman was a C student at Ball State, he now funds a creative telecommunications scholarship that does not take grades into account.

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QvrE TIL a group of soldiers ran the Boston Marathon wearing full uniforms and 40lb backpacks, when the bombing happened, they were there to help
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5YWEQ TIL the phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener is called Semantic Satiation.