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TIL the oldest continuous university is currently The University of Karueein in Morocco founded by Fatima al-Fihri.

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4XgjJ TIL that Austro-Hungarian officer Gunther Burstyn produced and patented the design for what would've been the world's first tank in 1911. Both the Germans and Austro-Hungarians rejected his designs due to a perception that such a vehicle was unnecessary in the near future.
PQ0J TIL in 1997 physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.
WNj8 TIL that In-N-Out store managers make at least 100 grand a year, including 401k and full benefits
PdLO TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.
dB7B TIL that “one moment” is actually a medieval unit of time representing ~90 seconds