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TIL as an undergraduate at Harvard, Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his literature professor was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he plagiarized a work by George Orwell and submitted it as his own. The paper was returned by his professor with a grade of “B-”.

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QNgGM TIL: African spiny mice can lose 60% of the skin on their backs and re-grow the lost tissue without scarring! Researchers are looking into the genes responsible for this because these genes work in mammalian systems (growing back fur, muscle, etc) and could work in rehab medicine.
N76OM TIL about “pico y placa” or “peak and plate” which was started in Bogotá, Colombia. It’s a driving restriction policy aimed to mitigate traffic congestion. Only license plates with certain numbers can drive on pre-established days and during peak hours.
Qmde TIL An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.
wLpj6 TIL about Stank Baker, a man who had been booked to fly on the 1931 Avro Ten Southern Cloud disappearance only to cancel his flight and travel by train instead which saved his life. Because of this, he gained a fear of flying which became justified when he was killed by another flight 19 years later
XEMVQ TIL that the original idea behind Marge Simpson’s hair was to conceal large rabbit ears. The gag was intended to be revealed in the final episode of the series, but they weren’t expecting the show to last 30 years