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TIL Harvard’s endowment Is bigger than the economies of half of the nations in the world

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LRLv TIL that the word “boycott” comes from 1880, when the Irish Land League refused to do business with a rent collector named Charles Boycott.
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x0d1 TIL that Nimrod, recorded in Genesis as “a mighty hunter before the Lord” is now used to mean a dimwitted or stupid person because of Bugs Bunny who sarcastically refers to Elmer Fudd as “nimrod,” an ironic connection between “mighty hunter” and “poor little Nimrod”, i.e. Fudd. No one got the joke.
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