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TIL there are actually six degrees of burns

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xVoG1 TIL that there is a black market where professors write college papers and homework for students. A journalist tried to expose one site as a scam, but got an A- instead.
p8QWO TIL the Thousand Character Classic is a poem that has a thousand Chinese characters, each used exactly once, and rhymes
KbkQ TIL that in 1933 Soviet Russia dumped 6200 people on an island in Siberia and left them to their fate. A month later 4000 of them were dead.
epaNJ TIL “Avocado” is a modification of the Spanish word aguacate, which derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word āhuacatl, which means “testicle.”
VDd4 TIL Robert Liston performed the only operation with a 300% mortality rate; His patient, his assistant and a spectator died