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X0JAD TIL that until 1773, Harvard University graduates were ranked not by academic merit but according to their birth status or rank of their parents.
16KmW TIL that dictator Suharto created a forced monopoly on cloves to enrich his son Tommy, who paid clove farmers well below market rate. That company somehow went broke, so Suharto forced state banks to loan $300 million to his son.
Yb1v TIL the Pagoda at Horyuji is the oldest wooden building on the planet, it contains some timbers that came from trees felled around 600AD
wLnRJ TIL If the entire universe was compressed into a single year, humans would appear on December 31st 11:59pm while the dinosaurs would’ve been extinct on December 30th
m1jjv TIL the infamous "Jump the Shark" episode of Happy Days (Season 5, Episode 3) was created as a way to showcase Henry Winkler's real-life water skiing skills. The episode drew over 30 million viewers.