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TIL that New Mexico State’s first graduating class in 1893 had only one student—and he was shot and killed before graduation.

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loEp5 TIL that the Aryan certificate, which served as proof of Aryan origin in Nazi Germany, is still today a permissible document to prove the German nationality.
b80Z TIL that the ability to taste cucumbers is genetic. Those who with the gene tend not to like the bitter taste whereas those without the gene experience a nearly tasteless fruit.
kOJD4 TIL that in 1922, a Canadian fur trapper named Ben Cochrane was killed by a pack of wolves, but only after fatally shooting seven of them and clubbing four others to death until his rifle stock broke off
gaOA TIL that servers rarely spill drinks or trays because they are trained to not look at what they’re carrying, but where they are going, because the body is naturally able to keep things level.
xXJB TIL that during the Nazi occupation of Greece, the mayor of the island of Zakynthos was ordered to make a list with the names of all Jews on the island. The list handed over to the Nazis contained two names: the mayor’s and the islands Bishop. All Zakynthos Jews survived the Holocaust.