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TIL only colleges and universities based in the United States are eligible for a .edu domain name

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xVA85 TIL that during WW1 the British used semen as invisible ink, and the name of the man who invented this technique was “Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming”
6bEQ TIL at a Marine Mammal Studies Institute, dolphins were trained to turn in trash that fell into the pools in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide pieces of paper under a rock, tearing off smaller pieces from the paper in order to get more fish out of it.
5YV9n TIL in Kenya (and eastern Africa) people accused of witchcraft are beaten and burned alive, and such lynchings are on the rise
87w4 TIL When George Lucas was filming the Sandcrawler (in A New Hope) in Tunisia, the Tunisian government asked him to move it away from the Libyan border after Libya threatened military action, thinking it was a large war vehicle.
e0506 TIL the American flag was designed by a High School Student. Happy Independence Day!