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TIL That the IB, which places strict punishments for plagiarism, just copied their marking guides from Wikipedia

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NxJ TIL Foreign language translations had to change Tom Marvolo Riddle’s name so that an appropriate anagram could be formed from “I am Lord Voldemort.”
VoO4 TIL a convict from Port Arthur (Tasmania, Australia) disguised himself as a kangaroo and tried to flee, but the half-starved guards on duty tried to shoot him to supplement their rations.
OGGeg TIL human DNA contains roughly 750Mb of information.
AdX7 TIL that during the 2015 Paris attacks the German National Soccer Team couldn’t go back to their hotel and as a result had to sleep on mattresses and as a sign of solidarity the French National Team slept with them in the stadium.
7rk4p TIL while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleagues confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleagues believed a spy had infiltrated the project.