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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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PYm6E TIL that the name Vermont comes from the French "verd mont" meaning green mountain.
E1N6w TIL of Jim Abbott, who played ten seasons in Major League Baseball despite being born with one hand. In 1993, he pitched the eighth no-hitter game in Yankees history.
eppVk TIL of the format called MovieCD (not to be confused with VideoCD or CD-Video) which was a way for full-length videos to be played on 16-Bit Windows PCs that couldn’t handle the MPEG codec.
GADjg TIL a certain type of sherry wine can have a sugar content greater than 450g/L, over 4x that of Coca-Cola
l7KBN TIL in 1791 at the Battle of Wabash, approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army was destroyed in one day by Native American forces.