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TIL there are more than 10 states of matter including time crystals

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E15a0 TIL for a period in the early 1970s the North Korean GDP per capita was higher than the South Korean one.
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.
N7WZ1 TIL the funeral of Japanese musician Hide was attended by 50,000 fans, not including the 10,000 who attended his televised wake. His death resulted in numerous suicides including one at his funeral. One person died in a car crash and around 200 people were hospitalised due to exhaustion and heat.
VBBMG TIL : The Anthem of the European Union is not the Ode to Joy created by Beethoven but an arrangement by Karrajan with very minimal differences, thus yielding royalties to Karrajan instead of being in the public domain.
R9Ba TIL Quentin Tarantino approached Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love to play “Lance” and “Jody” in the movie Pulp Fiction but they declined