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TIL That when the University of Oregon Ducks play the Oregon State Beavers, they play for “The Platypus Trophy”

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Egbr0 TIL SoFi Stadium's 5 billion dollar construction cost was entirely funded by private investors with no tax payer money.
WkYnN TIL Hitler used an arson attack on the German parliament to justify taking away most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association, public assembly and the secrecy of the post and telephone
RZmQ TIL Matt DeHart, hacker associated with Anonymous, discovered that the CIA played a role in the 2001 anthrax attacks. After he released this information, the CIA and FBI put warrants out for his arrest, illegally detained him, tortured him, charged him with possessing Child Pornography.
wLxgM TIL that after WWII, Col. S. L. A. Marshal published a report that found only 15-20% of soldiers in combat fired to kill during the war, even if their lives were threatened. This prompted the US Army to switch from bulls-eye targets to sillouette targets to desensitize soldiers to killing
WklmA TIL that “The Bone Wars,” a fierce rivalry in the 19th century between two paleontologists involving bribery, fraud, and theft, concluded with one of the scientists donating his brain in hope that it would be bigger than that of his rival.