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TIL Meryl Streep graduated cum laude from Vassar with a Bachelor of Arts in drama and then earned a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Yale.

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KYMW4 TIL that when Mount Everest was first measured it was found to be exactly 29,000 feet tall. It was reported as 29,002 because surveyors worried the public would assume 29,000 was merely an estimate.
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