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TIL the youngest person to graduate with a bachelor’s degree was Michael Kearney, at the age of 10.

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lokbr TIL about the city of Cahokia; a Native American (Mississippian) city built on the Mississippi which had over 140 hand-built earthen mounds, more people than contemporaneous London, a copper smelting workshop and 5 concentric circles of posts which line up with the sun on equinoxes and solstices.
rRojM TIL the word Gerrymandering is a portmanteau of the name "Gerry" for Governor Elbridge Gerry and "salamander" for the salamander-like shapes of the districts it created.
M7o9m TIL the sirens from Homers Odyssey were never said to be actually beautiful, or even mermaids. Instead, they were strange human-faced bird creatures who lured men to their deaths by promising them wisdom and knowledge of the future
l7OwV TIL from 1804 to 1805, Diamond Rock, an islet near the French island of Martinique, became the HMS Diamond Rock, a stone frigate of the British Royal Navy
d8LnE TIL that the quietest room in the world is so absolutely noiseless, you can hear the beating of your heart within the deathly silence.