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TIL there is a real life “Van Wilder” who attended his university for 16 years and did not graduate despite having enough credits completed for 9 majors and 5 minors.

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0WmR TIL PETA kills thousands of adoptable dogs and cats that enter their shelters each year.
9wEYD TIL In September 1730 in India, 363 men, women, and children were killed while trying to peacefully protect a grove of Khejri trees which were sacred to them from being chopped down. Due to the sacrifice of the protesters, the ruler took back his earlier order of felling trees.
xVjjB TIL about Luz Long, the Nazi Olympian Long Jumper who befriended Jesse Owens during the 1936 Olympics, and was such good friends that Owens was Long's son's best man at his wedding after WWII.
l7oaV TIL that only about 20% of people like the smell and taste of truffles. They cost a fortune and most of us don’t even like them.
5VNVR TIL Mr T was the youngest child of 12 children. He and his four sisters and seven brothers grew up in a three-bedroom apartment.