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TIL KNTU, the radio station for the University of North Texas used to be KUNT.

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8aVOa TIL that hairdresser/archaeologist/YouTube personality Janet Stephens taught herself to recreate ancient Roman and Greek hairstyles by studying the back of a bust of Roman Empress Julia Domna’s head at Walters Art Museum and finding a footnote for the definition of the Latin word acus, or needle.
nW4xG TIL one species of redwood tree is deciduous (Loses its leaves and changes color). The Dawn Redwood was thought to be extinct for millions of years and is an endangered species.
AnBB TIL “The Rats of Nihm” childhood movie was inspired by a real rat utopia experiment that ended in societal collapse.
ANOZw TIL that in 2017 scientists discovered a new shark species in the depths of the ocean - and it glows
O601 TIL A third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent a birthday cake, and a knife for cutting the cake, to school. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, and then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon.