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TIL a Wal-Mart heiress gave back her USC degree when she was exposed to have used another student to complete her school work for years.

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Z8Ona TIL In Australia, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta is held annually on the dry Todd riverbed. Competitors run down the course carrying bottomless boats. It was cancelled once, in 1993, due to flooding
GAw9J TIL in 50,000 years' time, Niagara Falls will have eroded the remaining 32km to Lake Erie, and will therefore cease to exist.
rRLl4 TIL: Rodin's famous sculpture of Balzac was so controversial when it was first exhibited in 1898 that vendors in Paris sold parodies of the work, including this one of Balzac as a seal.
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