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TIL Mark Hamill graduated from high school in Japan

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obVK TIL that there is a high school in Philadelphia that is allowed to confer degrees as well as high school diplomas. Some graduates are granted a Bachelor of Arts at graduation.
jNDZj TIL Bruce Willis sabotaged the production of one of his films so badly that it was scrapped after 20 days costing Disney Studios millions. To avoid legal action he made three films for them at a fraction of his normal fee. The films (Armageddon, The Sixth Sense and The Kid) grossed $1.2bn worldwide.
wL4M TIL that Kim Peek, the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, could recall the contents of over 12,000 books. His IQ was 87.
Ldx0 TIL that scientists have found the second most widely used herbicide in the US has gotten into the water supply, causes sexual abnormalities in frogs, and is associated with birth defects in humans and animals
OGLZ7 TIL Greenday's American Idiot was released 20 years ago August 6th