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TIL West Point has a tradition of celebrating the student who came in last in class rank but still graduated, called the Goat. Including having each cadet give the Goat money.

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QYQX TIL: A woman with Type 1 diabetes underwent an islet cell transplant. Since the transplant, her glucose levels have remained at a healthy level, and she was taken off insulin and has no dietary restrictions. “She is like a nondiabetic person but requires antirejection drugs,”
7r6EP TIL that L. Frank Baum, the author of the famous children's book, "the Wizard of Oz," called for the genocide of American Indians, writing in 1890 and 1891 that "in order to protect our civilization . . . wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth"
9n0M TIL there have been computers programmed in “ternary” instead of the conventional binary. One such computer, built by the Soviets in 1958, had distinct advantages over binary computers such as increased power efficiency, cheaper parts and easier implementation of certain operations.
QJjbe TIL pigeons are everywhere because humans domesticated them 10,000 years ago for food, and have since been using them for other things until they were abandoned and perfectly adapted for an urban environment
8QwK TIL that Jonathan Lee Riches got the Guinness world record for having filed the highest number of lawsuits in the world. When he heard of this, he sued the Guinness Book of World Records