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TIL that students at Oxford University are required to wear academic dress for all of their examinations - including a suit, gown, bowtie, and colour coded carnation. Students wear different gowns depending on their grades. Cambridge no longer has such dress for exams.

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0wKwp TIL that Robert Wang, inventor of the Instant Pot reads every review of his product. When one customer commented that it would be nice if it could make yogurt, he created a new model that could do that, then sent the reviewer the new model as a thank you. He still reads every review.
4kl4w TIL that in an effort to pay school tuition, Jeremy Clarkson’s parents sold unlicensed Paddington Bear dolls, which led to legal action. On the way to meeting at a law firm, Michael Bond and the Clarksons formed a fast friendship. Bond licensed the rights to the Clarksons, making them wealthy.
5VvrD TIL Jennifer Connelly had nearly half of her finger bitten off by a chimpanzee while filming "Phenomena." (1985) It was surgically reattached soon after.
xV9X1 TIL due to a 1700% increase in bank robberies during the Great Depression, the Texas Bankers Association created the Dead Bank Robbers Reward Program, paying $5000 to anyone who killed a robber during the crime, no questions asked.
yWj8 TIL there is a German children’s book from 1845 about three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, Saint Nicolas dips the three boys in black ink, to make them even darker-skinned than the boy they’d teased.