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TIL that tuition at Stanford University was free up until 1920.

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gMnE4 TIL a 39 story building in Seoul was evacuated after tremors were felt on the top floors. Instead of an earthquake, it was found that an exercise class on the 12th floor was playing Snap!'s "The Power", which happened to match the building's resonant frequency and caused it to violently shake.
m1rLR TIL a study found that two 3000-year-old artifacts (a bracelet & a hollow decorative sphere) in the Treasure of Villena were forged from iron from a meteor that struck Earth a million years ago. Most of the 66 items in the treasure are made of gold & silver. The trove's origin remains a mystery.
kOaa1 TIL Steve Jobs once argued that’s it completely unnatural to touch the screen on a PC. He reportedly said people's arms would fatigue and called the idea “ergonomically horrible.”
vKDB TIL The Sydney Harbour Bridge was unofficially opened by protester on horseback who cut the ribbon with his sword
OLLX TIL that in 1945, Dwight D. Einsenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.