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TIL the University of Georgia was caught having a 300-level Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball class, attended mainly by its basketball team, where the final exam had questions like "How many points does a 3-point field goal account for in a basketball game?"

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x6N75 TIL after William Jennings Bryan finished his Cross of Gold speech, the audience was completely silent. Bryan said that it was "really painful" and that he thought he had failed, but when he returned to his seat the entire audience went into pandemonium and it took 25 minutes to restore order.
GY4N4 TIL people who consume a hallucinogenic drug may experience a mental disorder called hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, in which they continue experiencing the visual hallucinations and distortions from the drug long after it has worn off. Researchers don't know why this occurs
Xrrr TIL - Congressman McFadden in 1934 wanted to imprison those who ran the Federal Reserve Bank. “The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation’s debt.”
VBRYQ TIL Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was the first man to die during a space-flight. He volunteered to pilot a hastily built and fatally flawed spacecraft alone in order to save the life of the man who would replace him if he refused — his close friend and first man in space, Yuri Gagarin
B7Pd TIL that the Rwandan Genocide lasted only 100 days. In those 100 days, Hutus killed anywhere between half a million to a million Tutsi civilians.