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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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4evX TIL in the original story of Peter Pan, the Lost Boys do age, even in Neverland. The reason the group is always made up of children is because if they don’t die by other means (which is common), Peter “thins them out.” The author never clarifies whether this means they’re executed or banished.
5WG8 TIL a steer is a bull that has has been castrated and an ox is a mature steer.
QND49 TIL about the towers of Bologna, around 80-100 towers built between the 12th and 13th century, with towers as high as 318 feet
rRX0d TIL that Harrison Schmitt, an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, and former U.S. senator, is often credited with capturing the famed photograph of the Earth know as The Blue Marble, and he personally collected rock samples that suggested the moon once processed an active magnetic field.
E1GwX TIL that in the 70's an eccentric Englishman made a car with a 27 litre 1000hp merlin engine and got sued by Rolls Royce for using a RR grill on it.