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TIL: Cannibalism has been recorded in over 1500 species

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7lyp TIL that Norman Borlaug (the father of the Green Revolution) learned that he received the Nobel Peace Prize while working in his wheat test plot in Mexico; he learned that he was outstanding in his field while he was out standing in his field.
pXAA TIL Oakley had a pricing dispute with conglomerate Luxottica who responded by dropping the brand in all their stores, causing Oakley’s stock to drop. Luxottica then bought out the company. They own Sunglasses Hut, LensCrafters, PearleVision, Target Optical, and several licenses such as Ray-Ban.
wo6ZW TIL that President Nixon had an "Enemies List" targeting over 200 political opponents, activists, journalists, and celebrities, including Paul Newman, Jane Fonda, and John Lennon, with plans to use IRS audits and FBI surveillance against them. The list was exposed during the Watergate scandal.
5VK1p Today I Learned that there was an 870-person-capacity jail boat moored off Riker's Island in NYC which was in use as recently as last year.
RoJ4 TIL a study found that a hundred high schools - about 0.3 percent of the nationwide total - account for 23 percent of students at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Of those hundred, all but six are private.