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TIL “That’s Crazy”: Why You Might Want to Rethink That Word in Your Vocabulary - Penn Medicine

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x8pw TIL that in 2007 NFL player Braylon Edwards promised 100 Cleveland public high school students that if they kept a 2.5 and performed 15 hours of community service he would pay for their college. They did, and Braylon Edwards kept his word. He spent approximately a million dollars.
8RVK TIL Indiana State Prison allows murderers to adopt cats and have them in their cells.
Br0Dx TIL Mercer Island is an Island in Lake Washington near Seattle. It is the most populated island in a lake within the United States.
eLj5 TIL whale oil was such an effective lubricant that within 3 years of the 1972 US whale killing ban, yearly automotive transmission failures had climbed from under 1 million, to over 8 million.
XeOR TIL the current King of Sweden is Karl XVI despite only being the 10th king of that name; in 1604, Karl IX (actually the third) picked his regnal number based on a completely fictitious history of Sweden, and the mistake stuck.