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TIL:In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year’s full tuition at a in state 4-year public university. This assumes the national average of the cost of a 4 year university and doesn’t include room and board.

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69Mww TIL that giant sequoias actually depend on forest fires to reproduce, due to their cones being serotinous and needing fire for them to dry out, open, and release their seeds.
6x9J TIL at least 10 children have been born in Antarctica.
WkjlN TIL 23-year-old Charlie Johns married Eunice Winstead Jones, age 9. They they had 7 children and marriage lasted 60 years. He died at age 83 in 1997, and she at 86 in 2006.
W8nN TIL Scientists estimate that if spider silk could be faithfully reproduced with the thickness of a pencil, it would be strong enough to stop a large jet plane in flight.
WRbd TIL Hutton Gibson, father of critically acclaimed actor Mel Gibson, is a Jeopardy champion and Holocaust denier. He also believes in 9/11 conspiracy theories and rejects the Second Vatican Council because it is “a Masonic plot backed by the Jews”.