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TIL Harvard makes so much money from the interest on its endowment that even if the school gave free tuition to all of its students it would still make a profit

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NXgW1 TIL Homer Simpson's official job title at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is "Nuclear Safety Inspector" but he has also had at least 188 different jobs in the first 400 episodes.
04AR TIL that people living within 2000 meters of an airport have higher levels of lead in their blood, which is linked to lower IQ in children and a host of diseases. Unlike cars and commercial airplanes, recreational airplanes still use leaded fuel.
d80y8 TIL Robert Millikan disliked Einstein's results about light consisting of particles (photons) and carefully designed experiments to disprove them, but ended up confirming the particle nature of light, and earned a Nobel Prize for that.
AAj7 TIL that a 1997 poll showed that Americans thought NASA’s funding accounted for 20% of the federal budget. In fact, NASA has received one cent or less per every tax dollar since 1975. Currently, they receive a $.005 cents per dollar.
grx5L TIL Gerrymandering is pronounced the same as GIF