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TIL that William Shakespeare invented the word “swagger.”

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epd0E TIL that the character Krusty the Clown from the animated series The Simpsons was originally conceived as a parody of the character Homer. This explains the striking resemblance between the two characters.
e066b TIL that a number of private US universities (including Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had quotas on the maximum number of Jews to be admitted. In 1935, Yale's Med School Dean stated: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."
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