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TIL college professors implement digital codes in their books to fight piracy. Requiring students to complete weekly assignments on online programs that are accessible only with the codes provided in the required text upon purchase. So students have to pay over of $100 just to submit homework.

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P1Lpw TIL that Deltora Quest, the Children's Fantasy Books by Australian Writer Emily Rodda, Has Its Own Anime, Which Started Airing 2 Years After the Series Ended, from 2007-2008, and has 13 Episodes of Original Content Not Found in the Books. It Even Spawned a Nintendo DS Game, Released Only in Japan.
nDxB TIL of the Ikea effect, where you give a higher value to things you built.
R7508 TIL the misplaced apostrophe in Lands' End (as opposed to Land's End) resulted from a typo the fledgling clothing company couldn't afford to fix. It's still misspelled that way today.
yQRma TIL about Sister Doris Engelhard of Mallersdorf Abbey, the last nun working in Europe as a brewmaster. The abbey brews about 80,000 gallons of beer a year, all of which is consumed locally. The beer is untreated and needs to be drunk while it is still fresh.
4Xv9R TIL despite movies and television, never put a raw steak or other raw meat on a black eye. The bacteria on raw meat poses a high risk of infection, and this method of treating a black eye has no scientific basis.