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TIL the University of Oregon plagiarized the section on plagiarism in its student handbook from the section on plagiarism in Stanford’s teaching handbook.

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wLe67 TIL Pistachios are expensive because the trees take up to 20 years to reach peak production, and are "biennial-bearing", meaning a light harvest every other year. The nuts used to be dyed red to hide stains caused by hand picking, most pistachios are now machine picked and dyeing is unnecessary.
P1pBJ TIL about Marvin Heemeyer, a man who destroyed buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, CO, as an act of revenge against the people who wronged him
VMkW8 TIL that fans of the band "The Killers" are known as "The Victims"
AN7l4 TIL Matthew perry once beat up the current Canadian prime ministrer in a school fight.