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TIL that there are 450 Ivy League courses available online for free.

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wLDnE TIL that the man that came up with the password recommendations regrets it.
E1lyX TIL Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son, was in close proximity to three out of four presidential assassinations.
RLv6 TIL in 2005 the band Bloodhound Gang wrote a song where the lyrics consist of lines said by Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons
VM6J0 TIL That Halo was supposed to be an exclusive for the Mac. (Even being revealed by Steve Jobs himself.) the game was also meant to be a third person shooter. But before that was finalized, Microsoft bought bungie rest is history.
N9VQ TIL a reporter for the Morning Bulletin in Australia once wrote an article about 30 000 pigs escaping from a farm. The paper had to issue a retraction the next day when it transpired the reporter had misheard the farmer. In fact, 30 sows and pigs had escaped.