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TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic was valedictorian of his class before earning a bachelors degree in architecture.

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jNbaR TIL that there have been multiple people adrift at sea who have lived over a year with no supplies other than what the ocean had to offer. Through their own ingenuity and perseverance they survived.
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