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TIL college students in the U.S. on average spend 85% more for on-campus food than the average American spends on food

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VBJ1k TIL Little Shop of Horrors has two endings. One where Audrey and Seymour get married and live happily ever after (the ending I grew up with) and an ending where Audrey and Seymour die and a bunch of Audrey 2s take over the world
1D6V TIL that prisons across America serve certain inmates a one-dish meal called “nutriloaf”, which was specifically designed to be bland, flavorless, and unappealing.
xdVk TIL Mike Myers loosely based his Dr. Evil character on his former SNL boss Lorne Micheals. Dr. Evil’s phrase “throw me a frickin’ bone here, people,” was supposedly something Michaels said many times at script meetings for SNL.
KYQxG TIL about the Janzen–Connell hypothesis, a widely accepted mechanism that asserts that a forest with more diverse species of plants will prosper because the more common a plant species is, the more specialist enemies it attracts.
QyAE TIL it’s possible to avoid London’s congestion charge by paying a lower fee to register your car as a private hire taxi, then just never pick up any passengers.