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TIL that winter term graduates at Middlebury College in Vermont ski down a mountain into their own graduation ceremony

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VMNEZ TIL the YouTube music video for Jamrioquai's Virtual Insanity is over 10 years old
j65np TIL about the 'Rag-Tag Circus' which was an American Division that during WW2 attacking towards Berlin used commandeered German armored vehicles and even some German airplanes to speed their advance
rRp70 TIL: The Clovis people were not the first Americans. The find supports growing archaeological evidence found in recent years that disputes the notion that the Americas were originally populated by a single migration of people from Asia about 13,000 years ago.
R50el TIL that during the Mexican revolution (1910-1920) 2 presidents were exiled and 4 were assassinated or murdered.
pYOxZ Today I learned of the voiceless labial–velar implosive, the rarest sound to appear in any language. The sound, described as pronouncing a k and p at the same time while sucking in air instead of pushing it out, is found only in the Central dialect of the Igbo language.