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TIL that Oxford University is so old that they don’t even know when exactly it was founded and that the earliest evidence of teaching there goes back to 1096.

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9r7Q TIL there is an American charity that pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.
waro TIL That actor Ron Perlman smokes 4 cigars a day, mostly to calm himself. He says: “Some people meditate, I smoke cigars. It’s the best way for me to find myself. Smoking a cigar stops my hands from shaking. Smoking a cigar prevents me from punching people in the face when they get on my nerves.“
9YKop TIL Folding@Home is a distributed computing project for biomedical research of protein folding. Started in 2000, it now has over 100,000 users and is the fastest supercomputer in the world with over 470 petaFLOPS of computational power. The research has produced over 223 peer reviewed articles.
yQGQp TIL Firefighters use wetting agents to make water more "wet". The chemicals added reduce the surface tension of plain water so it's easier to spread and soak into objects.
j0wQ TIL that red Solo cups are a common souvenir for foreigners to bring back from the USA.