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TIL that Students at John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero making it the highest grade, thereby getting 100%

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AoRa TIL Many European zoologists believed that birds hibernated under the sea or flew to the moon in winter until 1822, when a stork was found in Germany with an arrow from Central Africa embedded in its neck, providing the first clear evidence of migration.
DQeJp TIL SC Johnson’s offices in Racine, Wisconsin were designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright
Wkjod TIL: Only 5 countries in the world have never been under any sort of European control.
6969m TIL that in ancient Babylon, doctors who failed to cure a patient or caused death could have their hands cut off as punishment
0OmR TIL helium molecules are so small that they bleed through the rubber in balloons, causing them to deflate and become floppy, unfloaty & sad.