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TIL Texas started a $10k degree initiave and now there are 12 schools offering degrees for $10k TOTAL and other states are following suit

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Yy9v TIL a man once secretly outsourced his job to China, played at work including surfing Reddit, and made hundreds of thousands before being caught and fired.
6EKQw TIL that in the 1950s, the Russians created the first ternary computer, The Setun, which recognizes 1,0 and -1. It’s more efficient than the 1, 0 of binary.
1L8O TIL that a company called No More Woof is developing a device and software which monitors dogs’ brainwaves and translates mental states into English so that they can tell us how they’re feeling
LkyZp TIL: The Beggar's Opera written in 1728 was accused of being a "base form of entertainment". Similar to the way we blame videogames today; the opera was blamed for increasing crime rates and violence, due to the fact that its main characters were prisoners.
VM4MB TIL Robert A Heinlein challenged readers' possible racial preconceptions by writing strong, sympathetic characters, only to reveal later that they are of African or other ancestry.