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TIL Ed Smith created a fake student called George Burdell when Georgia Tech sent him two enrolment forms by mistake. He signed Burdell up for all his classes and did all his work twice with minor changes so teachers wouldn’t catch him. The school awarded Burdell a bachelor’s and a master’s degree.

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xDmw TIL that the green iguana has a ‘third-eye’ called a parietial eye, in the middle of its forehead. This does not function in the same way as its two side eyes, but enables it to detect movement, especially from above, to help it avoid predators.
gMNkD TIL about how in 2008 during the macy's thankgiving day parade, during the final performance of the "foster's home for imaginary friends" float the pre-planned musical number, the music was cut, only for Rick Asltey to come out and perform "Never Gonna Give You Up" live
7j7M TIL that after four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses, a jury in Memphis Tennessee found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. The King family, who filed the civil suit, was awarded $100.
LkL1P TIL when Joseph Vaillancourt's 2,609,698 km 1963 Plymouth Fury taxi, at the time the highest-mileage car in North America, was hit by a truck, actor Michael Barette personally spent about $20k on restoring the car.
b9Yga TIL Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is being eaten alive by millions of venomous sea stars known as crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS). Scientist have developed a new robot to hunt and kill these sea stars—a murderous, autonomous underwater vehicle called RangerBot. It kills with a single shot of bile