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TIL The Mississippi University for Women has a Men’s Basketball team.

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MeArB TIL Dr. Seuss' widow disliked the 2003 Live-action 'Cat in the Hat' film so much she wouldn't allow any more live-action adaptations
5YnLP TIL about the Dunning–Kruger effect, which is "a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is"
woo46 TIL the author J.D. Salinger was a Sergeant in the US Fourth Infantry Division in WWII. He landed in the second wave at Utah Beach on D-Day, carrying a draft of "The Catcher in the Rye" with him there and through several battles, and at the liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
e0GkE TIL that crabs have teeth in their stomachs and they use them to 'growl' at predators
nWVL7 TIL that George Lucas wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie but couldn't obtain the rights so instead created Star Wars