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Mennb TIL about 'The Lost Year.' On September 12, 1958 Gov. Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas high schools for a year rather than allowing desegregation to continue. Teachers and administrators were required to fulfill their contractual obligations and appear for work in empty schools.
a8nky TIL Less than half the population can actually smell asparagus pee
epWn TIL NorCal students are petitioning to add the prefix “Hella” as the highest SI measurement (i.e. The sun weighs 2.2 hellatons)
ne8ld TIL that the Pomp and Circumstance march was named after a line in Shakespeare's Othello and was not originally intended as a graduation march.
PlVG TIL The KEO Time Capsule, which will be launched in 2014, will re-enter Earths Atmosphere 50,000 years from now. The cool thing is that everyones invited to submit their own 4 page letter.