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TIL despite graduating magna cum laude in 2007 with a 3.8 GPA, J. Cole officially received his degree in a homecoming concert in 2015 due to money owed for a library book.

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LkKxP TIL in a 1991 football match in Uruguay, a striker was wearing multiple gold chains. When he went up front for a corner, a defender pulled off one of the chains and put it in his sock. Neither the striker nor anyone else noticed, but TV cameras picked it up. At full time, the defender was arre-sted
8aEK TIL Japanese scientists created a virtually painless needle by studying mosquitoes
epEwL TIL Elizabeth Short’s (the Black Dahlia) mother found out she’d been murdered when a reporter called her and said her daughter won a beauty contest. The reporter then proceeded to get a bunch of information about Elizabeth before telling her mother she'd been brutally murdered and hanging up.
lZBA TIL that young children, like axolotls, can regrow their fingertips back, an ability that disappears as age progresses.
9Y8PG TIL of the Radium Girls, young women who worked by painting clock dials using glow in the dark radium paints. Because they sucked the brush to make them pointier, they were exposed to massive amounts of radiation, some suffering debilitating diseases that eventually killed them.