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TIL that in 1989 a guy named James Hogue conned his way into Princeton University, an Ivy League school, and remained a student there for 2 years until he was caught! He also masqueraded as a high school student at the age of 25

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ner19 TIL during a charitable auction in Kiev, Ukraine, Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal to a buyer who bid $1 million. After the sale, the buyer immediately returned the medal out of respect for Klitschko.
LDb9 TIL there is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans
womDJ TIL that as the USS Franklin was returning to Pearl Harbor for repairs after surviving multiple kamikaze hits, the captain refused to allow the harbor pilot to dock the aircraft carrier, wanting to do it himself. He proceeded to immediately crash the ship into the dock.
Z8v64 TIL there are an estimated 40 million slaves in the World today. For context, the trans-Atlantic slave trade was responsible for 12 million slaves over 400 years.
Lk9vd TIL about Hungarian Name Days. In the calendar, they have first names attached to every day of the year (for example, Anna is July 26th), and you celebrate with flowers and cake. It’s like a second birthday but because everybody knows your name, you get even more fanfare.