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TIL Stanford University rejected 69% of the applicants with a perfect SAT score between 2008-2013.

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vWE4 TIL the US tried to make cat guided bombs during WWII to hit enemy ships. The hope was that the cat would see the ship as “dry land” and steer the bomb to the target, in an effort to avoid getting wet. The project was abandoned because the cats would lose consciousness in the low G conditions.
Oo8d7 TIL - Cast Away screenwriter Bill Broyles Jr. spent 10 days on an isolated Mexican island for research purposes. He learned how to spear fish and ate them raw, licked water off of leaves and most significantly he befriended a Wilson branded volleyball that washed up on the beach.
yQpG8 TIL Cheerios dollars are a variety of the 2000-P Sacagawea Dollar coin (only 5,500 minted) with boldy detailed tail feathers on the eagle on the reverse of the coin. They were randomly given as prizes in Cheerios cereal boxes. Today, they typically sell for $5,000-25,000 depending on their grade.
PWlZ TIL that a cat named Simon served on a Royal Navy ship in 1949, and received a medal for surviving injuries from a cannon shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during his service. He died of an infection from his wounds and hundreds attended his funeral.
pYW0b TIL of Rick Ennis, who brutally murdered his parents in 1993 when he was 12 years old. Then at the age of 42, was again charged and convicted of killing a woman named Lori Slesinski.