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

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eWBb TIL that Canada’s population has a greater percentage of internet users than any other country. Canadians also spend more time online than anyone else: 45 hours per month, almost double the global average.
b64e0 TIL: People used to perform pregnancy tests by injecting urine into a frog. If the frog is female and has eggs at near its rear end after 12 hours then the woman is pregnant. If the frog is male and produces sperm, then the woman is pregnant.
00ev TIL about the Flyby Anomaly: when spacecraft do Earth-flybys at certain angles, they experience a small but sudden velocity increase, which is still unexplained. One of the proposed explanations is the existence of a ring of dark matter around Earth.
xVgn5 TIL the musical "A Chorus Line" is based on true stories from Broadway dancers, and the character of Sheila was based on, and originally played by, Kelly Bishop (Lorelai's mother from Gilmore Girls). Furthermore, the story Sheila tells in the play about her father cheating on her mother was true.
9wlQm TIL when President Charles De Gaulle visited Harold McMillan at his home in Birch Grove in 1961, the French Secret Service put a special fridge in the coach house filled with De Gaulle's blood in case of an assassination attempt. A Daily Mail reporter was also bitten on his behind by a police dog.