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BRbk TIL that Harvard College is suspected of grade inflation. The median grade is an A-, and the most frequently awarded mark is an A.
6gJw TIL that in 2008 the Pittsburgh SWAT won the “aerial shoot” of that year’s International Sniper Competition at Fort Benning, beating out more than 30 teams from across the world, including U.S. Special Forces, Marines and Army snipers.
5KvR TIL The word for Bear in many languages is just a vague description of a bear - the original word was taboo
WM7A TIL Dr. Dre’s son died of a heroin overdose in 2008
rjOx TIL in 2000 a Korean couple spent their life savings to bring a Pan Am 747 to Seoul and set it up as a restaurant. The restaurant failed, leaving the couple living in a hut below the airplane. The 747 was torn down for scrap metal in 2010.