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TIL Harvard invented the college interview and evaluation of extracurricular activities to weed out Jews in the selection process.

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4kNAa TIL that, on 9/11, all 358 workers of insurance company Marsh McLennan's WTC offices died. Their WTC offices (floors 93 to 100 of the North Tower) were directly by AMERICAN 11, and survivors of the blast became stranded, since the elevators and stairways were destroyed by the impact of the aircraft.
69mZ8 TIL in 1518, a ‘Dancing Plague’ struck Strasbourg, where hundreds of people danced uncontrollably for days, with some dancing themselves to death.
N5O8 TIL the same PR firms that tried to argue that tobacco use did not link to lung cancer received money in 2009 simply to increase the debate over the long term health consequences of natural gas fracking.
jNRAM TIL that in 1989, Ole Bentzen, a Danish audiologist, who was observing a screening of the 1988 comedy film A Fish Called Wanda, laughed uncontrollably to the point that his heart rate rose to an estimated 250–500 beats per minute, leading to a fatal heart attack
OoavR TIL pouring water on your head cools you down more effectively than drinking