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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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laBK TIL the han dynasty of China drilled for natural gas, tranposted it through pipelines and used it in stoves
1aEDX TIL about the Bee Hummingbird, the worlds smallest bird. At the biggest it's 5.5 cm and has an average weight of only 1.95 grams.
OoXyL TIL Jean-Paul Sartre won the Nobel Prize in Literature but rejected the award and prize money because he thought it would compromise his independent thinking.
E106V TIL Neil Armstrong resigned from NASA to take a teaching job, where he stayed for more than eight years—longer than his career as an astronaut. As part of a research group that included physician Henry Heimlich, he helped to design an artificial heart-lung system based on Apollo technology
loWN5 TIL that if you rub a piece of garlic on your foot, you will taste it in your mouth about an hour later.