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gMr4X TIL the Chancellor of UC Davis was fired after giving her family jobs with unusual pay hikes. She was later rehired at UC Davis at nearly the same pay rate, with her new job requiring that she teach only ONE class per quarter!
0wWgM TIL Emma Watson used to mouth Rupert Grint's and Daniel Radcliffe's lines during the filming of Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone.
Y7MEx TIL a handful of Crips got their asses handed to them by Army Rangers in a shootout in WA in 1989
rRD1x TIL: Embodied cognition. A counterintuitive concept in cognitive science, which says that not only is the mind and body interconnected but that the body actively influences the mind thereby shaping how we process our surroundings and environment.
oG7o TIL there is an island in the Scottish Hebrides that is owned entirely by its people. With a population of 83, the Isle of Eigg has been owned by its community since being bought in 1997, after decades of issues with absentee landlords, and generates 100% of its electricity using renewable energy