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TIL that groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal.
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TIL The number of students caught cheating at the UK's top universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) increased by a third in three years. There was a surge in cases of academic misconduct.
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TIL from 1848 to 1962, Algeria was considered an integral part of Mainland France rather than a foreign colony.
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TIL the most successful pirate captain of the Golden Age of Piracy, "Black" Bart, had very strict rules on his ship, prohibiting all lights and drinking after 8 in the evening. There was also a complete ban on gambling. If a crew member got hurt, he received a pension proportionate to his injury
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TIL spacesuits weigh nearly 300 pounds when empty (130kg)
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TIL after a Soviet doctor in Antarctica had to remove his own appendix, all Austrialian doctors must have theirs removed before allowed to stay there.