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ANXpa TIL there are 57 universities around the world with no tuition for all international students, providing free education regardless of a student's country of origin.
VMoeZ TIL that 27-yr-old grad student, Alexandra Elbakyan, put 50 million stolen research articles online for free. Her reason?...Worldwide liberation of knowledge from the tyranny of for-profit publishers. Many academics and longtime advocates for open scholarly research seemed to support her ideology.
e0VW4 TIL Phil Spector repeatedly pointed loaded guns at Leonard Cohen while producing one of his albums. At one point Spector shoved a revolver into his neck while holding a bottle of kosher red wine and said, ‘Leonard, I love you.’ Leonard Cohen responded by saying ‘I hope you do, Phil.'
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