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TIL A growing number of people who majored in the arts are spending up to $10,500 on bootcamps in computer coding and web design because they are finding that they don't have a lot of tangible skills that employers want. 95% are employed within 90 days of graduation

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ANkn7 TIL that Rasputin's efficacy at treating Alexei Nikolaevich's hemophilia is theorized to be due to his forbidding the use of aspirin for the boy. Aspirin, at the time, was prescribed for a myriad of ailments, but its anti-clotting effect—very adverse for hemophiliacs—was not known until much later.
AN6Jg TIL that despite its significant mineral deposits and other resources, such as uranium reserves, oil, gold, diamonds, hydropower and significant area of arable land, the Central African Republic has the lowest GDP per capita at purchasing power parity and the second lowest inequality-adjusted HDI.
a866b TIL Freddie Mercury’s introductory scatting vocal on "Under Pressure" was improvised during an experiment suggested by David Bowie, as Brian May recalls it: "David said, 'Okay, let’s each of us go in the vocal booth and sing how we think the melody should go and we’ll compile a vocal out of that.'"
rRJZ1 TIL of Iron Age pigs, a cross between wild boar and domestic pig, first developed for a BBC documentary to mirror the type of pig represented by prehistoric art works of the Iron Age in ancient Europe. They are now raised for their meat with a distinctive gamey pork flavour.
PYdVV TIL Marijuana flowers are either male or female. Many marijuana plants have either only male or only female flowers, but some have both on the same plant.