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TIL that each year, there are more than 35,000 low-income high school seniors that score in the 90th percentile on the ACT or SAT but never make it to college.

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6EWrQ TIL that Bathsheba Spooner (February 15, 1746 – July 2, 1778) was the first woman executed in the United States following the Declaration of Independence. She petitioned for a postponement, citing her pregnancy, but 14 midwives swore she wasn't with child. A postmortem exam showed she was pregnant.
JY1jV TIL that Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is Red-Green colorblind and blue is the richest color he sees.
LkNnV TIL when three brothers discovered they were descended from Adolf Hitler's family, they all made a pact to never have children in order to end the Hitler bloodline.
jgpQ TIL that reindeer are unable to walk and pee at the same time, so they have to take a bathroom break roughly every 6 miles. The distance between stops is so regular that in Finnish, this distance is known as “poronkusema” or “reindeer’s piss” and was a description of distances in the countryside.
8e7QZ TIL in the 1950s Temple University and the City of Philadelphia disinterred an entire cemetery to expand Temple's campus and dumped 28,000 headstones into the river