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TIL Nigerian universities suffer from a problem brought on by violent secret social student groups known as Confraternities. They're basically fraternity groups that operate and act like criminal mafias.

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9YYDm TIL fiddle and violin are the same instrument. The difference is in how they're played
7rxWO TIL Female anaconda sometimes eats the smaller male after mating, Sexual cannibalism provides female anacondas with a lot of nutrients, useful for them because they fast for seven months while pregnant.
X0mL6 TIL it's not possible to watch every film ever nominated for Best Picture. Only 2/3 of 1928's The Patriot still exists, and the only complete prints of 1931's East Lynne and 1934's The White Parade are in the UCLA film archive
Alga TIL that Jeffrey Jones, best known for playing principal Edward Rooney in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ has been arrested on multiple occasions for employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexual photos and subsequently failing to update his sex offender registration
nelBb TIL that 30 million live in caves in China