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TIL The textbook industry is considered a “broken market” by economists and it has little internal competition

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yQ0ga TIL The water boatman can produce 99 dB of sound by rubbing its penis across its abdomen
kJZ6e TIL in 1948 Idaho Fish and Game attached parachutes to 76 beavers and dropped them out of a plane into the backcountry. All but one beaver survived the drop and they created a beaver colony in the Chamberlain Basin.
aw8A0 TIL that as of October 2017, John Tyler the 10th president of the U.S. who was born in 1790, has two living grandchildren
5V8b8 TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.
ADZ0B TIL that April 19 is “Bicycle Day”, named after when Albert Hoffman, the man who first synthesized LSD, made the first intentional ingestion of LSD and then went home on a bicycle.