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5VQDR TIL there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
GYE4j TIL that starting in 1817, the first year curriculum at West Point consisted solely of mathematics and French classes. The best available textbooks were in French, so all cadets had to learn French so they could read their math texts.
yQBva TIL The gravity constant, G was not known in Newton’s time, meaning the masses of the planets could not be directly computed. Newton got around this issue by expressing the masses of planets in terms of the mass of the sun