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TIL that American singer Kesha got a near-perfect score on her SATs and was accepted to Barnard College at Columbia University, but instead chose to drop out before graduation to pursue her music career.

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D1klP TIL that the QWERTY keyboard is deliberately a very inefficient way of typing
eEvk TIL that before the American revolution, the English actually pronounced their R’s, and the English accent then actually sounded like today’s General American accent.
JKBj TIL of a boat carrying horses for transportation that was shipwrecked, but the horses on it swam to a nearby island. The horses have since lost all domestication and the island has a population of more than 450 wild horses today
xPAw TIL On September 1997, the $1 billion American warship USS Yorktown’s propulsion system failed. The Yorktown was incapacitated in the Atlantic Ocean for 2 hours and 45 minutes. The propulsion system failure was caused when the software program made an error by dividing with zero.
JYNVv TIL the human eye only needs 5 photons to elicit visual experience.