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TIL that the number of administrators at U.S. universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the increase in students and teaching faculty.

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oROkR Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete
4XL4J TIL "Scottie" from Star Trek was Lieutenant James Doohan who was shot by machine-gun on D-Day. One bullet blew off his finger, 4 struck his leg and 1 hit him in the chest. A silver cigarette case stopped the bullet to the chest. He later joked it was the only time being a smoker saved his life
R5rRj TIL that after Colonel Sanders sold KFC, he still made surprise visits to KFC restaurants. If the food disappointed him, he’d denounce it as "God-damned slop" or knock it on the floor. In 1973, KFC’s owner sued him for libel after he publicly called their gravy "sludge" with a "wall-paper taste.”
arPb TIL The number of Chinese killed by the Japanese during WW2 is greater than the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
nep67 TIL A knight fighting under another's banner was called a knight bachelor while a knight fighting under his own banner was a knight banneret.