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TIL Compared to older students, students who are relatively younger at school entry tend to have worse academic performance and lower levels of income.

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dpl9 TIL that in 1981 IBM asked Microsoft for a 16-bit operating software. Microsoft didn’t have one and didn’t want to build one, so they spent $75,000 on someone else’s software, tinkered with it a bit and MS-DOS was born.
AND1w TIL James Cameron was refused permission by the Picasso Estate to use Les Demoiselles d’Avignon but he used it anyways. Its depiction in Titanic suggested the painting sank to the bottom of the ocean did not please the Picasso estate
rRORd TIL that Germany opened its Special Forces to women in 2001. Only one woman applied & she failed the requirements. As of 2016, no woman has passed the selection process.
W7vpN TIL that East Germany had an internet domain (.dd)
86ma TIL: [Will] “Smith’s wages were garnished 70 percent during the first three seasons [of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air] to pay his back taxes.”