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TIL Selling oregano as marijuana can get someone into as much trouble as selling marijuana

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Br8Ak TIL that the world's oldest mouse, Yoda, reached the age of 4 years in a pathogen-free environment at the University of Michigan, living with his cage mate Princess Leia. 100-year-old people are much more common than 4-year-old mice.", said his lab director.
mxOPx TIL that Aretha Franklin required that she would be paid, in cash, prior to any performance, often carrying the money in a bag, on stage during the show.
ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.
epmwb TIL as late as the 1960's, the Ivy League undergraduate programs were only open to men—the exception being Cornell which has been open to women since 1865. Columbia became the last in 1983 to become coeducational.
xZDD TIL of the Nirvana fallacy. It is the belief that, because something is not completely perfect, it is deeply flawed or even broken. It is very common in economic and political discourse.