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TIL that Raheel Ahmad asked for Rapper Lil Uzi Vert to help pay for the $90,000 Tuition for Temple University, and he did. Raheel finished with a 3.5 GPA and the two reunited together in celebration.
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TIL that football teams wearing red kits perform better than teams in any other colour
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TIL that from the 14th to the 19th century, the Earth experienced a period of global cooling called the Little Ice Age, which caused widespread crop failures, famine, and social unrest in Europe and beyond.
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TIL that Quvenzhané Wallis is the only person born in the 21st century ever nominated for an acting Oscar
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TIL in the Lion King that when Rafiki says to Simba 'You are a baboon, and I am not' he is correct: he is in fact a Mandrill and not a baboon.
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TIL in 1952 a driver did the 24 Hours of Le Man solo and nearly won, leading by 4 laps with an hour to go only to not finish due to an engine failure.
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TIL in 1978 Cher did a 13 minute One Woman show of West Side Story songs using green screen
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TIL GTA: Vice City was planned as a GTA 3 expansión but had so much content that was released as a separate game
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TIL about Black Monday during the Hundred Years' War, in which a sudden hailstorm killed around 1000 English soldiers and up to 6,000 horses in only half an hour. The carnage convinced the English king that the storm was God's wrath, and he sued for peace with the French the next day.
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TIL the original Pentium had a hardware design fault that made it unable to accurately compute certain large floating point divisions, such as dividing 4,195,835 by 3,145,727. This resulted in a $475 million loss to Intel after its recall.
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TIL that the first computer "bug" was an actual moth found trapped in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947. This literal bug inspired the term we still use today for software errors.
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TIL that when cars were new, hitting a pedestrian was a serious matter called a motor killing. As it happened more as there were more cars and more crashes, Car Manufacturers hired public relations spin doctors to invent the word Jaywalker to shift fault to pedestrians for getting hurt and dying.