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TIL that even though many people cite the PISA test scores as a source that Americans are behind in education, the test scores show that Americans beat every other OECD country when controlling for poverty in schools.

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rNeWM TIL that the winner of the 1927 Alaska Territorial Flag design competition was a seventh grade orphan named Benny Benson. He was awarded a watch with the flag emblem on it and 1,000 dollars for education that he put toward studying diesel mechanics.
wLdAJ TIL baseball was mentioned in a Jane Austen novel written about forty years before Albert Spalding claimed the game was invented in America.
0wWDM TIL Inés Ramírez Pérez, a woman from Mexico. A mother of eight kids who had no medical training, performed a successful Caesarean section on herself. With 12 hours of continual pain she used a kitchen knife and three glasses of hard liqour whilst her husband was drinking at a bar.
8eevP TIL popular German metal band Rammstein are named after the Ramstein airshow disaster.
d8xod TIL that the word "dude" comes from the word "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle, which means fool or simpleton