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TIL The number of students caught cheating at the UK's top universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) increased by a third in three years. There was a surge in cases of academic misconduct.

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ADAdx TIL of the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, a public monument in London commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.
a8vxJ TIL Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter from Raising Arizona were on the cover of a Serbian biology book
a8g1J TIL that the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, leads a Romani working group focused on promoting Gypsy inclusion in Europe.
doEB TIL the Greek philosopher Chrysippus died from laughing at his joke that nobody else laughed at
78Ayx TIL of Kaskaskia, IL, which, as a result of a shift it the Mississippi River's course, is now on the Missouri (West) side of the river and so only accessible from Missouri. 21 people live there today but it was once the capital of IL.