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TIL that mammalian evolution has been fundamentally driven by viruses

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WkQ4 TIL “pie à la mode” was named by a professor who went around to restaurants ordering it by that name
R5ag7 TIL that between 1760 and 1860, college riots included Harvard's "Great Butter Rebellion" of 1766, which got the entire sophomore class expelled (some, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, were allowed to return). In Yale riots between 1843 and 1858, students stabbed or shot tutors and firefighters.
Ed4x TIL learned that 22 hours after the Nazis surrendered, the Russian people celebrated so much they completely exhausted their nation’s vodka supply.
WkrnY TIL physicists say they have found a exotic particle called Tetraquark
ELMP TIL that Lawn Gnomes used to actually be real people that the English employed to live in their gardens. The so called Ornamental Hermit.