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TIL the SAT was adapted to fit an American “Common Core” education. Logic-based word problems for math were replaced with clear equations, arcane vocabulary was replaced with common words from the workplace, multiple choices were simplified from 5 choices to 4, and the essay portion is now optional.

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7rOoP TIL it was first assumed that the sharks in the freshwater Lake Nicaragua were an endemic species, but it was later observed that the sharks were able to jump up and down the rapids of the freshwater San Juan River (which connects Lake Nicaragua and the Caribbean Sea) like salmon.
v9jx TIL that after the murder of a civil rights protester in 1963, “That Was The Week That Was” a British comedy show performed a brutal satire of racism in the Deep South
jZ4X TIL in Feb 2006, Steve Jobs personally called and gifted a 16 year old ten iPods, an iMac and a $10,000 music gift certificate when he bought the iTunes Store’s one billionth song.
0Kg1 TIL that when general Lee surrendered at the end of the Civil War he saw that Grant’s military secretary, Ely Parker, was a Seneca Indian and said: “ I am glad to see one real American here.” To which Parker responded : “We are all Americans”.
XExZR TIL of Friedrich Kellner’s diary titled “My Opposition”, consisting of 10 volumes, 861 pages, and 676 individually dated entries from September 1939 to May 1945. His diary offers a glimpse at what an average German citizen might’ve known of during the height of Nazi Germany’s power.