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TIL Norway will allow any student from anywhere in the world to study at their public universities completely free of charge

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QPAL TIL Mark Wahlberg (AKA Marky Mark) committed a number of unprovoked assaults, many of which were racial in nature, and one of which permanently blinded his victim.
W7a4d TIL Wattieza is considered Earth’s earliest known tree from the Middle Devonian Period. It lived about 385 million years ago in what’s now Gilboa, New York, and towered up to 8 meters tall, resembling the modern tree fern (though unrelated).
VBkL8 TIL about the porrón, a Spanish pitcher used to drink communally by pouring wine or other drinks into your mouth from a distance, much like a watering can for flowers
Bg4yb TIL that the Puritans banned the celebration of Christmas, believing it to be 'popery'. In England, the ban was from 1647 to 1660 and pro-Christmas rioting occurred. In Boston, the ban was from 1659 to 1681 but it was unfashionable to celebrate Christmas there until the 19th century.
DQDjj TIL The rarest eye color is green, as only about 2 percent of the world’s population sport this shade. About 10,000 years ago, all humans had brown eyes and over half the people in the world have them