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TIL MIT puts almost all of its course materials online for anyone to access for free.

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wobQ8 TIL It is a myth that people swallow spiders in their sleep
ekPE TIL that Saudi Arabian textbooks, which are used by Muslim schools around the world, teach students that homosexuals should be executed, that Jews are “Apes”, and that Christians are “Swine”–and these are the versions that have already been toned down and scrubbed for hate-inciting speech.
R79a7 TIL Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan rejected role in Christoper Nolan's "Interstellar" due to scheduling conflicts as he had already signed two other Bollywood films.
M7kxm TIL about the Dionne Quintuplets. The first set of quintuplets to survive past infancy who spent their lives on display and exploited because of this.
aNeA TIL that a Queen song, “Stone Cold Crazy”, is widely considered to be one of the first thrash metal songs ever written.