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TIL the most common group of people who switch majors in American universities are people in STEM field majors who decided to quit and do a non-STEM major instead

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XEWvk TIL in 1487 a 10 year old boy declared himself as the rightful Earl of Warwick in a challenge to King Henry VII's claim to the throne, and not only got through his insurrection unscathed but even became King Henry VII's falconer.
vPpBR TIL Picasso stayed in Paris throughout out WWII. During one search of his apartment, a Nazi officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. "Did you do that?" the German asked Picasso. "No," he replied, "You did."
RKM1 TIL Hermann Goering banned vivisection and announced an end to the “unbearable torture and suffering in animal experiments” and said that those who “still think they can continue to treat animals as inanimate property” will be sent to concentration camps.
wrwM TIL that David Spade did not attend his close friend Chris Farley’s funeral because he “could not be in a room where Chris was in a box.”
kJvxE TIL: After hundreds of years spent to domesticate a pig, when reintroduced into the wild in a matter of weeks they can revert back to a state where it will get hairy, grow tusks and get aggressive.