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TIL that after obtaining “atleast” 3 billion USD in fraudulent student loans, University of Phoenix was fined only 78.5 million USD.
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TIL that when Oslo arranged the Olympic Games in 1952, a root beer company had already bought the rights to use the olympic rings on their product to make it seem more like a sports drink, so that the Norwegian Olympic Comittee to had to buy the rights back in order to actually arrange the games.
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TIL Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Rear Window" was inspired by two actual murder cases. The first was a doctor who killed his wife, told friends she went to America. The second was a man who dismembered his pregnant girlfriend, throwing pieces of her body out a train window.
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TIL that the National Endowment for the Arts has a smaller budget than the Pentagon’s marching band
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TIL that the blue jay can be beneficial to other birds, as it may chase predatory birds and will scream if it sees a predator within its territory. It has also been known to sound an alarm call when hawks or other dangers are near, and smaller birds often recognize it and hide.