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TIL textbook costs are up more than 1000% since the 1970's. Publishers claim that new digital technologies drive down those costs. Affordability advocates tend to blame publishers and claim the new technologies are an attempt to maintain a stranglehold on the textbook industry disguised as reform.

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nWwQ9 TIL that the Dodge brothers, of the iconic car brand, got their start manufacturing bicycles in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and manufactured auto parts as a side hustle.
awE7Z TIL about the Erikkson twins, sisters who were both knocked down by vehicles on a UK motorway. A TV crew filmed the incidents, and the madness that ensued as one twin stood up and attacked police attending the scene. Days later she stabbed a man to death.
5Yl48 TIL of Leon Ray Livingston—a famous hobo and author who traveled under the name “A-No. 1.” He perfected the hobo symbols system, which let other hobos know where safe places were, always dressed immaculately, and retired after the lifestyle “bought him to the brink of psychological collapse.”
vlVR TIL in December 2002 a 60-year-old mechanic was fined for failing to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency that he’d removed his motorcycle from the road. He refused to pay and claimed that he had the right by medieval law to choose a trial by combat with a “champion” nominated by the DVLA
gMGjW TIL that there are apocalypse guidestones in Georgia with rules on how to rebuild society in 8 languages.