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OjYX TIL Sean Connery single handedly beat 4 men in a night club while Michael Caine held his coat
8PrL TIL Tuition for the year at Ivy league UPenn in 1950 was only $625, grad school $525, law school $625, med school $725. $625 is $6,055.60 in today’s dollars. Actual cost today is $45406, $29342, $54992, $52430.
a8nG9 TIL that along the Egyptian–Sudanese border, there is a peace of land, Bir Tawil, claimed by neither country. Egypt assert that it belongs to Sudan, and Sudan assert that it belongs to Egypt.
rR6B1 TIL that the office Treasurer of the United States has been held by women since 1949
E1Vnp TIL Navy Captain Chris Cassidy studied mathematics at the Naval Academy, ocean engineering at MIT, was a Navy SEAL for 11 years, and is an astronaut who spent 181 days in space.