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TIL that James Franco went back to college after filming Spider-Man 3. After taking 62 credits per quarter, he graduated from UCLA in 2 years; he then went on to attend Brooklyn College's, Columbia University's, and NYU's MFA programs. Afterwards he attended Yale to get his Ph.D in English.

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1ad1X TIL Jane Stanford, founder of Stanford University, was murdered by strychnine poisoning. The president of the university at the time, David Starr Jordan, was suspected of covering up the murder. The killer was never found.
Me8pa TIL as a result of it's war with the US government during the 1970s, the Church of Scientology discovered internal documents from the CIA which proposed a mind-control experiment in which hypnotized subjects would have an uncontrollable impulse to ‘commit a nuisance’ on Groundhog Day in 1961.
e0Lk5 TIL Norway practices restorative justice in their prison system and prisons mimic normal life. Prisoners get many amenities and benefits and sometimes keep their jobs on the outside while serving time, commuting daily. Norway's recidivism rate is one of the lowest in the world at 20% within 5 yrs.
VMy74 TIL: In 2013 a cat guided a lost hiker down a Swiss mountain,the little feline made sure the man wasn't left behind by checking on him every now and then.Once they reached their destination they parted ways.
V9dm TIL Even though Wierd Al does not need to ask for permission for his parodies and does not need to pay royalties yet he only makes parodies with permission of the original artists and pays royalties for the songs as well.