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TIL a University of Georgia graduate founded the school's eventual rival, Georgia Tech

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loyXr TIL Madame Nhu, Catholic first lady of South Vietnam (sister-in-law of unmarried President Diem), publicly responded to monk Thich Quang Duc's self immolation with "Let them burn & we shall clap our hands," insulting many among the Buddhist majority. Her father, ambassador to the US, disowned her.
Qvep TIL That Macdonalds recycles the oil they use to cook as biofuel for (some of) their delivery trucks.
9wJdr TIL in order to discredit him politically, Octavian sought Mark Antony's will which was safe guarded by the vestal virgins, thinking the contents would be juicy. The vestals refused to hand it, as it was illegal...but told him they couldn't stop him if he just grabbed it by himself, which he did
a88Zb TIL about Kendall Myers, the grandson of the first full-time editor of National Geographic (credited w/ having built the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today) and also great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell is serving a life sentence in the U.S.'s only supermax prison for espionage
Nwxe TIL that Girl Scouts originally made the cookies they sold in their own kitchens, and that the recipe for those cookies is posted on the official Girl Scout website.