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TIL Pill bugs are actually crustaceans, not insects

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GgAj TIL That there is an asteroid that is following Earth’s orbit around the sun.
vvG8 TIL American taxpayers spent $32b in 2011 on companies that operate for-profit colleges, but most students leave without a degree, half of those within four months. There is reported “exorbitant tuition, aggressive recruiting practices, and taxpayer dollars spent on marketing and pocketed as profit”
Gap5 TIL that Mae Questel, the voice of Olive Oyl in the original Popeye cartoon, voiced Popeye himself in a few shorts where his voice actor, Jack Mercer, was unavailable
yV0ml TIL that Rome turns 2777 this year, having been founded, according to tradition, on 21 April 753BC.
0d8aN TIL In 1942, a 60-foot-long (18 m) 1000-ton ship was built out of ice and sawdust in hopes to be an aircraft carrier