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TIL Ivy League has nothing to do with academics; it only refers to the schools' sports league

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v1xWL TIL: the "legs" you see in old high speed footage of nuclear tests are a result of the explosion chasing down the wires of the support tower. The metal of the wire conducts heat faster than the surrounding air, allowing the pulses to move out ahead of the rest of the blast.
BrjNd TIL In golf, an albatross (a hole score of three under par) is so rare that between 1970 and 2003, only 84 such shots (averaging about 2.5 per year) were recorded on the PGA Tour.
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs
rRDJd TIL in 1905, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the Supreme Court ruled that states could enforce rules that restrain individual liberty, in favor of conserving the safety of the community
K1jR TIL a 625 lbs man tried to troll on a bodybuilding forum with a thread by asking “ASK THE FATTEST MAN ON MISC ANYTHING”. He was eventually convinced to lose over 350 pounds