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TIL two high school students rode their horses to school on ‘no vehicles to school day’, and got suspended.

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ebND TIL in agoge, the Spartan youth was intentionally fed with less than adequate food so as to stoke his hunger pangs. This encouraged the youth to sometimes steal food; and on being caught, he was punished - not for stealing the food, but for getting caught.
W7ZGo TIL-That humans have the largest butts (portionally) in the animal kingdom.
Xp8E TIL 2008 was the UN approved International Year of the Potato
EgMLx TIL that the British Empire was the largest in human history, about six times larger than the Roman Empire, occupying close to a quarter of the world
rGaW TIL that “Chop Suey” literally means “miscellaneous leftovers” in Chinese.