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TIL: That in the 1980s a group of scientist found that male Jewel beetles in Australia were mating with discarded beer bottles as they looked like very sexually attractive females; glossy, dimpled and brown. Afterwards, the beer company changed their bottle design.

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8PrL TIL Tuition for the year at Ivy league UPenn in 1950 was only $625, grad school $525, law school $625, med school $725. $625 is $6,055.60 in today’s dollars. Actual cost today is $45406, $29342, $54992, $52430.
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