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TIL that after obtaining “atleast” 3 billion USD in fraudulent student loans, University of Phoenix was fined only 78.5 million USD.

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kOdjm TIL about Peter Oakley, known as Geriatric1927 on youtube, he was the most subscribed youtube account in 2006, in his channel he talked about his life experiences, such as growing up in the UK during WW2 and experiencing the British inter-war school system, he passed away in 2014 at 86 years old
E1VpX TIL that in 2019 scientists finally calculated that a day on Saturn was, 10 hours 33 minutes and 38 seconds long. This number still has a degree of error of a couple of minutes longer or shorter but is less than the previous 12 minute window.
YVar TIL that pistol dueling with wax bullets was a popular pastime in the early 20th century and even featured as a sport in the 1908 Summer Olympics
gd14 TIL Marco Polo did not introduce Italy to pasta via China. Durum wheat, and thus pasta as it is known today, was introduced by Arabs from Libya, during their conquest of Sicily in the 7th century, predating Marco Polo’s travels to China by about six centuries
yVW9w TIL that parchment is made from animal skins or leather. All my life I always thought it was made from wood like other papers.