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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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pY0Rb TIL about John Du Pont, heir to the Du Pont family fortune, and the only member of the Forbes 400 richest Americans list to have ever been convicted of murder.
5n6Q TIL The largest helicopter ever built had a rotor diameter of 129ft (39.6m) and had jet engines in it’s blade tips.
9AJM TIL There are isolated communities in Eastern Canada that speak Gaelic
xnZg TIL Olympic / sports doping offers an example of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: if no athlete dopes, nobody has an advantage; if one does, he/she benefits, but if all athletes dope then the advantage disappears and only the potential negatives (getting caught) remain.
kOPRe TIL CANOLA is an acronym for Canadian Oil Low Acid