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TIL a kid once made a Counter Strike map modeled after of his high school and then got expelled

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gMKW7 TIL three "spec scripts" -- an unsolicited screenplay written in hopes it will be eventually purchased by a film studio -- have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay: Thelma & Louise (1990), Good Will Hunting (1994), and American Beauty (1998).
yQ6Ba TIL I learned of Jevons Paradox. Also referred to as the efficiency dilemma. It holds that gains in efficiency with which a resource is used only lead to increased demand for that resource.
wj8 TIL in 2008 a Texas schoolgirl was thrown off the cheerleading team for refusing to cheer “put it in” for a football player who raped her.
PYw6w TIL After Peter the Great mandated that all officers in his army must have started their career as privates, noble families began to register newborn boys as privates. First reporting for service at the age of 15, the boys were then promoted through seniority to junior lieutenant or equivalent rank
E1Xl7 TIL Famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen once believed tamed polar bears would be a better choice than dogs for pulling sledges. He tried to tame a bear cub he’d captured on a trip to the Arctic but killed it with chloroform after it attacked him. The stuffed cub resides in a museum near Oslo.