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TIL Schools that offer students more choice—more elective courses, more ways to complete requirements, a bigger range of potential friends, more freedom to select seats in a classroom—are more likely to be rank-ordered, cliquish, and segregated by race, age, gender and social status.

DYAp TIL people who think they wake up just before their alarm goes off have brain waves showing they were asleep. They may simply be remembering — or not forgetting — the moments just before waking, while forgetting the rest of their sleep.
MeaWW TIL that Argentina has the most pets per capita, with 80% of the population having a pet. Argentineans have the most dogs (66% of pet-owners), Russians have the most cats (57% of pet-owners), Turks have the most birds (20% of the population), and Chinese have the most fish (17% of the population)
GAkZN TIL: Until 2005, In-N-Out accommodated burger orders of any size by adding patties and slices of cheese at an additional cost. The limit was later disallowed to anything larger than 4x4 (four patties, 4 slices of cheese) after a famous incident involving a 100x100.
kXX1 TIL that after running late to a class, George Dantzig copied down two problems he thought were homework and solved them. The two problems were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, which later earned him his doctorate.
woo07 TIL of US Colonel John Stopp who conducted a series of G-Force tests in the late 40’s and early 50’s. He holds the world record for most G’s pulled on land, after traveling 632mph (1017 km/h) on a sled track in New Mexico on Dec 10, 1954. Stopping in 1.4 seconds he experienced 46.2 Gs