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TIL - Universities get ‘Kickbacks’ from publishers for requiring their students to purchase textbooks

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nWkl9 TIL about the Abode of Chaos. Artist Thierry Ehrmann bought an old scenic house in a rural town and transformed it into a replica war zone that serves as an open-air museum of radical avant-garde art. This has angered locals enough to sue him in France's supreme court.
M7Ooa TIL the top ten earning occupations in the US are all various types of doctors... CEOs come in 11th.
aAJ TIL Heath Ledgers The Joker was based off of Tom Waits. Check out the clip, the similarity is uncanny…
78Vlb TIL/ 24 hours is the limit you can wait after a pregnant woman's water breaks
VyP8 TIL that the Rosetta spacecraft, while studying comet 67P, discovered electrons cause the rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules erupting from the surface, not photons (light) as previously thought.