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TIL architecture undergraduate Maya Lin's design of the Vietnam Memorial only earned a B in her class at Yale. Competition officials came to her dorm room in May 1981 and informed the 21-year-old that she had won the design and the $20,000 first prize.

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pBAN TIL in February of 1863, there was a snowball battle amongst rival divisions of Confederate troops in which approximately 10,000 Confederate soldiers participated. It was later described by a participant as “one of the most memorable combats of the war.”
78VWx TIL microwaving a grape will make plasma
59Dn TIL that lobsters are functionally immortal. They show no measurable signs of aging (no loss of appetite, no change in metabolism, no loss of reproductive urge or ability, no decline in strength or health), and seem to only die from external causes.
AD87 TIL: Gas stations (and other merchants) can’t have a “minimum purchase amount” when you use a credit/debit card…regardless of what they try to tell you…
JNPm TIL that despite its budget of $45,000,000, Foodfight(2012) has the lowest score for an animation movie in IMDB. It featured the voices of Charlie Sheen, Hilary Duff and Eva Longoria.