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TIL 1/3 of Harvard students are legacies.

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gW87 TIL that in Amsterdam there was a protest against laws to ban psychedelic mushrooms where protesters filled super soakers with mushroom spores and sprayed the parks and lawns surrounding parliament
4Xw5a TIL Abraham Lincoln was brought secretly into Washington D.C. for his inauguration due to an assassination conspiracy in Baltimore.
N6QM TIL Rickey Henderson was so proud of his $1,000,000 bonus check he framed it instead of cashing it.
69O17 TIL of ractopamine, an animal feed addivite used to promote leanness and food conversion efficiency in farmed animals. Its use is banned or restricted in 168 countries, but allowed in the US. Steve-O was a test subject for it in an early clinical trial.
jNPPX TIL that English surpassed Chinese as the most spoken language in the world in 2017 by 20 million people, according to Ethnologue