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TIL that even John Katzman, president of test preppers Princeton Review, thinks the SAT is a scam and measures nothing

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K46B TIL that Texas is so huge that El Paso, in the western corner of the state, is closer to San Diego, California, than it is to Houston, Texas.
mxEKE TIL expensive weddings usually end in divorce.
gZWA TIL in countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Iceland, your baby’s name must be on an approved list.
lOp5 TIL That by following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour — by putting a frog in the bucket of milk — scientists have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
OaKg TIL there was a 20 meter shark that preyed regularly on whales and other large prey. They were such efficient killers that they ran out of food and had to resort to cannibalism, effectively eating themselves into extinction.