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TIL Stanford has the strongest sports program out of any university in the US in terms of number of NCAA championships won

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WR6Y TIL every time Pac-Man eats a regular dot, he stops moving for one frame (1/60th of a second), slowing his progress by roughly ten percent—just enough for a following ghost to overtake him.
loYgA TIL the University of Montreal attempted to conduct a study in 2009 on male pornography consumption but was unable to put together a control group because they were unable to find men who had never watched porn
N1ab TIL a villager in China used a grenade to crack open walnuts for 25 years without realizing
16wjP TIL that in December 2013 a sophomore at Harvard University sent several bomb threats through the Tor network to cancel a political history exam he was unprepared for. He succeeded, but was caught that same day.
a1bo TIL that J.K. Rowling can go to Universal Studios and tell them to change anything about the Harry Potter area if it is incorrect, not accurate to the book, or even if she doesn’t like it. (Link is contract)