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TIL Taylor Swift received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from New York University and addressed the class of 2022. Swift had never had the opportunity to don a cap and gown before her moment at NYU

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wLy1P TIL Weber Grills were invented by Weber Brothers Metal Works, which produced metal buoys for the Coast Guard. George Stephen cut a buoy in half and added legs, and the Weber Grill was born.
6gm8 TIL that the biggest check ever signed, delivered and cashed, was for $9,000,000,000
An9g TIL that when people without access to mirrors (or clear water in which to view their reflections) are first exposed to them, their reaction tends to be very negative.
N7ewQ TIL there was only 1 victim of credit card fraud in Canada 2016. They lost $214.
Me6a8 TIL Timothée Chalamet & Luca Guadagnino both independently experimented with a peach to test the authenticity of a pitted peach being used in the narrative as a masturbation tool.