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TIL only 20 universities in the US make money off of college sports

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o1Jr TIL Barbara Lee was the only member of congress to vote no on the AUMF after 9/11 stating “It was a blank check to the president to attack anyone involved in the September 11 events—without regard to our nation’s long-term foreign policy, national security interests, and without time limit.”
RlOw TIL that John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in less than a week and went on to shoot the film on what was essentially his first draft of the script.
x6Pog TIL Hawaii’s 6th largest island, Lanai, is 98% owned by the co-founder of Oracle
loJ9N TIL In 2013, a scientist injected human brain cells into a mouse brain, which improved the mouse's memory and ability to learn.
4X75X TIL In New Mexico, at a quarter-mile section of Route 66, the rumble strips have been engineered to sound like the song “America the Beautiful” if you drive exactly at 45 mph over them