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TIL Chance The Rapper started a new awards show for teachers

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D18wJ TIL: One of the founding fathers died from sticking a whalebone up his peehole.
69P1w TIL that Promethium is an extremely rare metal, with only about 500–600 grams naturally occurring in the earth’s crust
KOKmE TIL The first high-level programming language known as Address was created by a Ukrainian Kateryna Yushchenko. It was more advanced than Fortran, Cobol, Algol which appeared couple years later
v9br TIL To put an end to the 2002 Nord-Ost siege in Moscow Russian officials decided to use a classified gas to put everyone inside asleep but the gas killed over 100 of the hostages while Russian officials would not tell doctors what was used in the gas.
oZjE TIL there is free University & College courses taught online by professors from world-renown schools. They believe learning should be free.