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TIL horse meat was sold as beef in Europe
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TIL Disney once had plans to team up with the makers of Myst for a Myst themed interactive park, Myst Island.
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TIL about Infinite Corridor, which connects the main buildings of MIT. Twice a year, the university celebrates MIThenge, an event which occurs when the corridor aligns with the plane of the sun, resulting in daylight filling the whole corridor.
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TIL that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned in large part due to a speech in which he said the reason for underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due to genetics
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TIL that nearly the entire student body and faculty of Ole Miss joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and suffered a 100% casualty rate.
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TIL The World Record for the fastest growing plant belongs to a certain species of bamboo. They have been found to grow up to 35 inches per day at a rate of 0.00002 mph. That’s nearly 1.5 inches an hour. You could literally watch bamboo grow before your eyes.