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TIL Female North Korean soldiers wear high-heels
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X0obr
TIL the UNLV Running Rebels hold the NCAA basketball final records both for points in a game and margin of victory for their win over Duke in 1990
wLBJ1
TIL In 2006, Dustin Diamond asked listeners of Howard Stern's show to purchase a T-shirt reading "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house" (spelling "Screech" with an extra E for copyright reasons), hoping to sell 30,000 shirts in order to raise $250,000 and avoid foreclosure on his house
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TIL that a man by the name of Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only person alive to be officially credited for surviving both nuclear bomb blasts. He was in Hiroshima on business for an employer when the bomb dropped, survived, and then went to work in Nagasaki three days later when the second detonated.
gwm7
TIL that ITT Tech has been investigated for claims of widespread grade inflation. In one instance, a student got a 100% on a computer forensics assignment for turning in a noodle recipe.
Wke1N
TIL the origin of the name "California" probably came from a reference to a fictional island described in a popular novel of the time of its discovery: Las Sergas de Esplandián.