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TIL A professor at Indiana University launched a system of gaining experience points through classwork instead of giving out traditional grades.

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MB80 TIL that, by law, no US officer is ever allowed to outrank George Washington, and he was posthumously promoted to “six star general” to make sure.
YpZGW TIL: Tennessee State Representative Harry Burn was the deciding vote that led to the ratification of the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote in the U.S. He said: “I know that a mother’s advice is always safest for her boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification.”
grxLA TIL that people over 65 have poor theory of mind, and it can still be improved if deliberately worked on.
R7bWw TIL that Lady Gaga's stage name came from Queen's song "Radio Ga Ga". "One day when Fusari addressed a cell phone text to Germanotta under the moniker 'Radio Gaga' [and] his cell phone's spell check converted 'Radio' to 'Lady.' Germanotta loved it, and 'Lady Gaga' was born,"
588Q TIL researchers have found that people are more likely to engage in sexual and aggressive behaviors when drunk in societies where it’s commonly believed that alcohol intoxication leads to those behaviors; this phenomenon is known as the ‘think-drink effect’.