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TIL that various animals have been awarded degrees, exposing the fraudulent activities of “degree mills.” One instance includes a cat that received an MBA and had a 3.5 GPA.

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WkDML TIL that in 1937 Fred Morrison got inspiration to create a plastic flying disc after initially throwing a pie pan from the Frisbie Pie Company. Twenty years later, the disc was named a Frisbee, as a nod to the pie company.
7rEWM TIL The little known Greater Swiss Mountain Dog is considered the oldest of the Swiss breeds and was instrumental in the early development of both the St. Bernard and the Rottweiler.
xV8v0 TIL that the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 amateur radio satellite failed in 1981 due to a short circuit in the batteries and was thought dead. But Polish anticommunists found that it still worked when it was exposed to sunlight -- and used it to covertly send messages to activists in other cities and the West.
rj5W TIL Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where more people speak a native language than a colonial one (90% Guarani vs 87% Spanish)
ZQWv TIL When “Persia” became “Iran” in 1935, The suggestion for the change is said to have come from the Iranian ambassador to Germany, who came under the influence of the Nazis. The name Iran means land of the Aryans.