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TIL a female swan is called a Pen
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TIL Michael Kearney (who spoke his first word at four-months-old) completed his Bachelor's degree in anthropology in two years to become the youngest ever university graduate at the age of 10.
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TIL of Rick Rescorla, director of security for Morgan Stanley and tenant of the World Trade Center south tower, helped to evacuate all but 13, including himself, of the company's 2,687 employees before the tower's collapse.
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TIL Japan grows less than 40% of the food it needs to feed its citizens
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TIL Winona Ryder was beat up as a child by bullies for looking like a feminine boy and was then kicked out of the school instead of the bullies. She ran into one bully years later and the bully asked for her autograph, to which she gloriously denied.
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TIL in the mid-60s, Canadian composer Galt MacDermot, who was then a 38 year old father of four, was offered to compose the music for the hippie-rock musical “Hair”. Galt admitted that he had no clue what a hippie even was, but was “enthusiastic to do a rock-and-roll show.”