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TIL the man who runs Khan Academy has three degrees from MIT as well as an MBA from Harvard

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6lvl TIL that 23% of the crew aboard Christopher Columbus’ ship “Santa Maria” was named “Juan”.
b9JX4 TIL about the Black War or the British conquest of Tasmania. The Lieutenant-General declared Martial law allowing for the British colonists to kill the aboriginal Tasmanians with impunity. Historians today debate on whether to label the war as a genocide.
GAVmE TIL there is a Spanish version of the TV show “Cheers”
g7ZW TIL: Inadequate hand washing contributes to nearly 50 percent of all food borne illness outbreaks.
8eRP TIL That former Reddit co-owner Aaron Swartz persistently hacked into JSTOR, an on-line archive of academic journals, to open access to the public. His endeavors included hard-wiring himself into the MIT network to assign himself 2 ip addresses.