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TIL Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana has a graduation rate of only 4%

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arrA TIL of the term Paradox of Tolerance: intolerance of the intolerant.
ADdP4 TIL: conceptual and non-conceptual mental states. Conceptual is beliefs that shape your current world view. Non-conceptual state can represent the world even though the bearer of those mental states need not possess the concepts required to specify their content.
b618Q TIL that Harry Houdini died from a ruptured appendix, not a stunt.
d8XeK TIL Samuel L Jackson was expelled from Moorehouse for holding up the board of trustees, including MLK Sr., at gunpoint until they agreed to hire more black staff. His mother, afraid of him becoming a POI for the FBI, sent him to LA where he began acting.
rROEw TIL that when Ernest Hemingway tried his first daiquiri, he said it was too sweet and asked for double the rum and less sugar. Thus, the Hemingway daiquiri was born.