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TIL that the Twenty-seventh Amendment was ratified after an undergraduate student at Texas University wrote a paper on the amendment. His instructor gave him a ‘C’ calling his idea “unrealistic”. The student then started a letter writing campaign to State Legislatures to get it passed.

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