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TIL Old Dominion University started as a two-year division of The College of William and Mary.

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OoLxY TIL About Britain's "Anthrax Island," an island used for testing a single anthrax germ bomb by the UK in WW2. It was determined an anthrax bomb could render cities uninhabitable for generations. Quarantined for decades, the island was declared inhabitable again after a cleanup effort in 1986.
d0vZ TIL When Atari was shut down in 1996, the (Historically valuable) source code to Asteroids and Centipede was thrown out as trash.
woo8E TIL East German Boy Scouts Learned To Drive Tanks on 1/3rd Scale 2 Boy Mini Tanks
R5D07 TIL Pythagoras was supposedly the first person to call the heavens, the cosmos, for in his eyes, this celestial ocean embodied perfection, and was intricately adorned with infinite beauty and animated life. And he was also the first to call himself a philosopher. In fact, he coined the term.
WBb9 TIL 87% of parents will buy or make Easter baskets for their children—and 81% will then proceed to steal candy from them.