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TIL that there is a non-profit organization that provides free course books. Free, not pirated. The organization is funded by the likes of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Rice University and the Hewlett Foundation and aims at making higher education available to more people.

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WkDad TIL that Finland, which used to dominate the Olympics, now has sports such as Hobby Horse (stick horses) dressage, Sauna World Championships and Air Guitar Championships.
m1xAO TIL Ted Turner created his own alternative to the Olympics, the Goodwill Games, and Turner believed international sporting competitions would prevent future wars. The Games lasted from 1986 to 2001 and featured the first major international beach volleyball event.
MvKK TIL that two people died inside of a flight simulator inside of a flight safety building because an airplane crashed into it.
jWdQ Til there was an anonymous campaign from different mysterious critics trying to attack and discredit the work of Dr. Heimlich (of the Heimlich manouver). It turns out that all the critics were the same person: his own son.
4kveN TIL child prodigy Adragon De Mello's father planned for his son to get a Ph.D. in physics by age 12, win the Nobel Prize by age 16, and then become a Senator, a President, the head of a world government, and ultimately the chairman of an "intergalactic government".