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TIL In 2004, An NYU Student spent 8 months living in the college library due to being unable to afford tuition and room & board despite a $15000/yr scholarship and working 30 hours a week. Upon learning about this, the university gave him free accommodation through the summer.

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jN0Ap TIL the actor who preformed "the voice" in Field of Dreams has never been revealed. Only the film's director, Phil Alden Robinson, knows who it is.
v19B4 TIL Eddie Van Halen (who passed away a year ago today) held three guitar invention patents: the most notable being a guitar support system plate "that rests upon the player’s leg leaving both hands to explore the musical instrument like never before. "
OGedg TIL in 1967, a documentary filmmaker was shot and killed while filming a miner in Kentucky by the owner of the rented house where the miner lived. The killing was motivated by the growing resentment of journalists who descended upon Appalachia to document living conditions during the War on Poverty.
698xm TIL acacia trees are flat-topped so that their lowest leaves are at the height of the tallest herbivores. They're also covered in thorns, have organs for housing/feeding vicious ants, release inedible compounds into their leaves when eaten, and use ethylene gas to warn nearby trees of danger
ZpD9R TIL that the phrase "Taco Tuesday" was trademarked in 1989 by "Taco John's" Restaurant, and any commercial use of the phrase to sell tacos is a violation of that trademark.