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TIL Western Michigan University Thomas Cooley law school has such low standards that at least a quarter of their students enrolled in 2018 had an LSAT test score among the USA's bottom 12%.

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kL5e TIL that the company who created the Etch A Sketch was about to go bankrupt, right before they signed a deal with Pixar to have their product shown in Toy Story in 1995. The scene was only 12 seconds long, but it gave the company a 20% sales increase that saved the company.
DBQV TIL that when David Bowie played his song “Andy Warhol” to Andy Warhol he did not like it. When the song had finished playing, Warhol and Bowie reportedly just stared at each other for a while until Warhol said “I like your shoes” and the pair then had a conversation about shoes.
QN4b6 TIL the US government tested an air-to-air nuclear weapon and put 5 completely unprotected men directly below it on the ground to show how safe it was.
J5yk TIL in 1962 Pres. Kennedy invited 49 Nobel Laureates for dinner at the White House. Kennedy remarked, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
R5bpl TIL a Nashville man known as "The Free Pizza Guy" has been giving free pizza to anyone who asks for it since 2019. As of November 18, 2020, they had sent nearly 4,000 pizzas to strangers in need.