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TIL: There are cochineal bugs in our food and drink

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VBQGD TIL Devin Gaines earned five bachelor's degrees simultaneously in five years from the University of Connecticut. He completed 276 credits and graduated in May 2007. Just two months later in July, he drowned in a gravel pit quarry while swimming with friends.
5V8LD TIL A Man deposited a junk mail check for $95K into his account.
p8Q1p TIL The symbol "℞", sometimes transliterated as "Rx", is recorded in 16th century manuscripts as an abbreviation of the late Latin instruction recipe, meaning 'take thou'. Originally abbreviated Rc, the later convention of using a slash to indicate abbreviation resulted in the modern common symbol.
b6B7Q Today I learned Quentin Tarantino was an Elvis Impersonator on The Golden Girls and received $3,000 in royalties which helped fund his directing career.
e0MVL TIL that the distinctive look of the Curious George books is because, to save money, the artist hand-painted colour separations for a CMYK printing process. Hence the heavy use of primary colours and fringing on secondary ones.