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TIL Canadians graduate with more student debt than Americans on average, despite far lower tuition rates

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rR8y1 TIL On Nov. 10, 1898, a mob descended on the offices of The Daily Record, a Black-owned newspaper in Wilmington, N.C. Armed men then moved into the streets and opened fire on Black men. The number of people who died ranges from about 60 to as many as 250, according to some estimates.
XX7r TIL that the NYC Subway uses left-hand threaded light bulbs to discourage theft.
Wk8nB TIL: The human brain is extremely efficient at consuming energy. It only requires the energy needed to light a very dim lightbulb for it to function properly. Supercomputer have to consume far much power to calculate connection in the way the human brain does.
mny TIL that the fruit fly has the longest sperm cell, 2.3 inches long.
6ENJ TIL that President G.W. Bush’s great, great, great, great grandfather Obadiah Newcomb Bush was vice president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, supported the Underground Railroad, and petitioned the New York State Legislature to secede from the Union in a protest against slavery.