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TIL the Vietnam Memorial was designed by a 21 year old architecture student for a class project. She got a B+ despite winning the national competition.

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4WLo TIL someone wrote a smartphone app called “Nickelblock” that plays Nickelback every time you try to look at your Ex’s profile on Facebook.
PYGxJ TIL that Islam is younger than Christianity.
6EL7Q TIL 17 year old Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra was the first runner-up in Miss India 2000 competition because one of the jury members felt her complexion was “too dark”
Eg4m0 TIL that the words “right or wrong,” are not definite, absolute or finite. They can have multiple meanings based on the person using the words as they are disambiguous.
Oww1 TIL White tigers are not an endangered species that need to be saved, but are the result of double recessive traits, and are severely inbred to produce more white tigers, resulting in health problems.