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TIL that 89% of NYC crime is nonwhite

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9YeJr TIL on occasion, animals have been granted a degree, despite not doing any classes. Animals are often used as a device to clearly demonstrate the lax standards of the awarding institutions. In one case, a cat's degree helped lead to a fraud prosecution against the institution that had issued it.
NbMP TIL that in Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
naXB TIL a man with a dream to swim with whales, hid at Seaworld after closing. He tried to swim with the killer whale Tillikum, only to be killed by him. His parents then sued Seaworld claiming that the whale is wrongly portrayed as friendly because of the stuffed toys sold there.
nWrmr TIL that the first US nuclear reactor is buried outside of Chicago.
LEEv TIL Kim Jong-Un became Kim Jong-Il’s heir after his oldest son (Kim Jong-Nam) tried to sneak into Japan so he could go to Disneyland