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TIL academic freedom in the US impacts the entire world.

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NOQ8 TIL that actor Christopher McDonald, the actor who played Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore, says he never pays for a round of golf because of his widespread fame from that role.
VBEaG TIL there was a pyramid constructed in Park Avenue, New York to commemorate the end of WW1. It was made out of 20,000 helmets from their vanquished German foes.
Zjjp TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit orange, not the other way around.
1ayZW TIL that there is a 3rd musical clef called the alto clef that isn't used often. Its only used for a viola and sometimes a cello and a trombone
J16B4 TIL that Robert Lopez is the youngest person to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, is the only person to have won each of them multiple times, and has won them closer together than anyone else.