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TIL that until 1827, Bachelors of Arts (BAs) students at Oxford University who sought to become Masters of Arts had to swear an oath never to be reconciled with Henry Symeonis. This practice lasted for 550 years, during which Henry’s identity remained unknown until his rediscovery in 1912.

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VMJ8D TIL: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar sent to Auschwitz for hiding jews; offered his life and volunteered to die in the place of another camp inmate who was about to executed, who cried that he had a ‘wife’ and a ‘child’. Maximilian on the other hand, had no family. In 1982 he was made into a Saint.
a84N9 TIL "The Bladerunner" is a medical crime story that has absolutely nothing to do with the movie Blade Runner. The movie is based on a novel called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The producers just liked the name "Blade Runner" and went with it.
7rbZM TIL Jurassic Park almost had a sequel cartoon series in 1994
W70B9 TIL the current rate of biodiversity extinction is estimated to be 1000 times higher than the background rate of 0.1 E/MSY (extinctions per million species-years) and rising all due to human activity and consumption.
DQQP TIL that due to the high ratio of atmospheric density to surface gravity on Saturn’s moon Titan, humans could fly by simply strapping on a pair of wings.