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TIL Students at Columbia College are required to pass a swimming test before receiving their diploma, in addition to its rigorous Core Curriculum

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keym TIL in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, the entire “dream” part was actually improvised and not written on his script, rather being prompted by Mahalia Jackson, who cried “Tell them about the dream, Martin!”
d8dg7 TIL That Spotify pays the Artist/Label between $0.003 and $0.0084 per stream, with an average payout of $0.004 per stream.
5a4R TIL Germany decided to retroactively pay pensions to african soldiers that served in the imperial colonial army. Claimants were handed a broom and ordered in German to perform the manual of arms. Not one of them failed the test.
BrVAx TIL that there is a type of tree that produces 40 types of fruits a year. The ‘Tree of 40 Fruit’ are fruit trees created using the technique of grafting, as an intersection of art, farming, and preservation and each tree produces an incredible harvest of all kinds of stone fruits.
g477 TIL there are currently 4,256 satellites currently orbiting the planet as of 2016, but only 1,419 are operational