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TIL Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky offers free tuition to students working at least 10 hours a week & free room and board to students working 15 hours per week

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Bge9W TIL in Medieval Christian art sometimes depicts Christ as the grapes in a winepress, his blood flowing as wine
PYAmg TIL that Colonel Sanders was highly critical of KFC, calling it "a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken" and "God-damned slop," while denouncing the gravy as "horrible." At times he'd surprise enter a KFC and throw the food on the floor if in disgust.
aw1l0 TIL Dead Peasants Insurance is when a company hugely benefits from the death of an employee while the family is left with medical and funeral bills
OGM7 TIL that when Donald Sutherland was cast in Animal House, he was offered either a 40k upfront payment, or a percentage of the film. Thinking that the film wouldn’t be a success, he took the 40k. Had he taken even just 1% of the film’s revenue, he would have made $1,416,000.
oR9RE TIL that rock singer Marc Bolan refused to learn how to drive, fearing that he would die young in a car crash. In 1977, Bolan died at age 29 in a car crash, when a car, driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones, hit a tree.