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Today I learned that while some Harvard students struggle with Baby Rudin, Chinese E-girls stream tutorials online.

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4Qe5 TIL in medieval times Great Danes were thought to ward against evil spirits and ghosts. Scooby Doo is a Great Dane
7ylM TIL Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity
0dWRA TIL Arsenic is commonly used in the treatment of a type of leukemia
kJYl4 TIL in 1971 a radical faction calling itself the Weather Underground claimed credit for a bomb exploding in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.(no injuries, just damages).
4aXX TIL that Google had to change the unlock pattern to require four connecting dots instead of three because Steve Jobs insisted that if users could connect the bottom three dots of the grid to unlock their phone, it would mimic the iPhone’s patented slide-to-unlock feature