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TIL Only 11% of students from low income families earn a bachelors degree by 24

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W7wYd TIL that after filming the music video for "Eyes Without a Face", the contact lenses that Billy Idol wore in it fused onto him and had to be surgically removed. For the next three days, he essentially had a face without eyes
Eg4xx TIL that although the British Double Cross operation captured or turned all German agents operating in Britain during WWII, the German Abwehr was equally successful in Holland with an operation called Englandspiel, capturing all British SOE agents sent to aid Dutch Resistance.
16O6X TIL the US enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time in 1973. It was repealed within a year when public support for it plummeted after the following winter.
6EbgX TIL losing weight can increase penis size.
b6OQZ TIL that the lead singer of the metal band Slipknot once "blew his left testicle out" while singing high notes for warming up his voice in rehearsal.