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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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dNoj TIL England used to have ‘Village lock-ups’ that were small buildings communities used to lock up disorderly drunks until they became sober
LMWr TIL 75% of fake drugs supplied world over have some origins in India, followed by 7% from Egypt and 6% from China
4Xo1b TIL when Martin Short appeared on the Today Show in 2012, one of the co-host commented how Short has one of the greatest Hollywood marriage and asked "why they were still madly in love?" Short replied because he's "cute"... his wife died of cancer in 2010.
5YWyR TIL that a square-shaped building with a volume of 1.2 billion cubic meters could fit inside Earth's entire human population.