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TIL The SAT is changing it’s format and you will no longer be able to make up facts and examples on the writing portion.

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LkLaV TIL about a vigilante from the 1970s who called himself captain sticky. He was a peanut butter and jelly themed crime fighter who had a car that squirted PB&J from the front that he would use to stop kids from stealing hub caps and making graffiti. He later started targeting shady businesses.
YlJG TIL that between 1996 and 2001, Afghanistan had no national anthem because the taliban had banned music altogether.
9wXmp TIL that the first manmade object to escape Earth was meant to hit the moon, but missed by 5900 km and was dubbed "Artificial Planet 1"
rRnBd TIL that in 1768 there was a witch hunt in China's Qing Dynasty, where people are accused of "Soul Stealing"
eglg TIL a man in his 70s is the only person to have run the NYC marathon every year since it began. He ran it in about 5 hours in 2014 (link in comments).