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TIL that the Onion sold for more than the Washington Post

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pYWLe TIL W. E. B. Du Bois attended the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, Germany, where he met many well-known social scientists, among them, Max Weber. He would later return to Harvard University (where he already earned his bachelor's in 1890) and earn his PhD in 1895.
grM0b TIL about the Battle of Dupplin Moor, where an English army defeated a Scottish army at least 10 times larger. Many of the Scots were compressed into a valley and suffocated, unable to fight or move.
Wkl5B TIL one of the best selling books of all time in Germany is "Winnetou", about a fictional American Indian and his sidekick Old Shatterhand. Since being released in 1875, it has sold around 200M copies and has had multiple movies and TV shows made.
ZpZxB TIL in 1905, American millionaire George Kessler threw himself a birthday party at the Savoy Hotel in London that involved flooding the entire courtyard with four feet of water so his guests could dine in gondolas and a five foot birthday cake brought out to them on the back of a baby elephant.
Boly TIL that Prof. Benjamin has been arguing that highschool students should not be thought calculus, and should learn statistics instead. While calculus is very important for a limited subset of people, statistics is vital in everyone’s day-to-day lives.