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TIL that one of the most popular philosophical debates on debate.org is whether or not Australia actually exists.

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9nBm TIL during the early penicillin era, the drug was so scarce and so highly valued that it became common to collect the urine from patients being treated, so that the penicillin in the urine could be isolated and reused
LQ0MQ TIL of a reporter who commissioned a paper from an academic ghostwriting agency to expose the "black market" for college assignments. Instead, the paper got an A-.
VMomp TIL that if there are 23 people in a room, there’s a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday. If there are 70 people in a room, there’s a 99.9% chance that 2 if them share a birthday. This is called the Birthday Problem or Birthday Paradox
RLd8 TIL recycling aluminum uses 95% less energy than that needed to produce it from scratch—nearly 75% of the aluminum ever produced is still in use today.
R76Ja TIL about the Anti-Rent War, a tenets revolt in upstate New York where renters declared their independence from the manor system run by patroons, resisting tax collectors and successfully demanding land reform.