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TIL Harvard Law School listed a white professor who was 1/32nd cherokee as a minority professor in response to criticisms about a lack of faculty diversity

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VM0oB TIL it costs more to renounce U.S. Citizenship ($2,350) than applying to gain it ($725). Renouncing citizenship was free before 2010. A fee was imposed due to the increase in recent years.
d8m89 TIL of a small (300 inhabitants) polish village where, over the last nine years, only girls have been born: the last boy is born 12 years ago
gM8v8 TIL That Golden Gaytime, a popular Australian ice cream treat, has the slogan "It's hard to have a Gaytime on your own".
m7QM TIL that East Germany created its own cola drink. Vita-Cola’s sales almost disappeared after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought Coke and Pepsi into the East. It is still the most popular cola in Thuringia, making the German state one of the few places in the world where Coca-Cola is not the leader.
lQBB TIL at Chicago’s O'Hare airport a 20 year old Bill Murray made a joke to another passenger that he was carrying 2 bombs. Overheard by a ticket agent, a couple of U.S. marshals were summoned to search his luggage. They didn’t find any bombs but rather $20,000 worth of pot. Murray was then arrested.