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TIL the president of Indiana University plagiarized extensively, and the administration is sweeping it under the rug.

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NxG1 TIL Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter.
YaBx TIL Walmart lobbies congress to raise the minimum wage in order to impose higher costs on smaller competitors.
VBk04 TIL about Project Plowshare which was a U.S. government program from 1957 to 1977 which sought to develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosives which included rock-blasting, creating new elements, studying nuclear physics, and gathering geological and Earth science data.
EMvd TIL the line “Ideas are peaceful, history is violent” in Fury was ad-libbed by Brad Pitt.
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