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TIL Bill and Melinda Gates funded a website created by Rice University that provides free open-source textbooks for college students

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dJmr TIL that a man called Zeb Quinn went missing in 2000. His car was found two weeks later, with it’s lights on, a pair of lipstick lips drawn on the rear windshield, and a live Labrador puppy inside. Zeb Quinn has never been found.
JPGV TIL That the man who sang “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch” also find the voice for Tony the Tiger in the Frosted Flakes commercials.
6n48 TIL that stem cells inside your teeth can repair muscle, generate bone, and repair damaged cardiac muscle after a heart attack
R5oZ1 TIL the word self-immolation. It refers to the act of burning yourself to death
0w1Zv TIL that Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hung in Great Britain, being sentenced to the gallows in 1955 for the murder of her lover after becoming embittered by his cheating ways