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TIL that student evaluations on RateMyProfessors have almost no correlation with professor gender but extremely high correlation with professor "hotness"

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pxmN TIL that when Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.
Wk8b4 TIL Dmitry Glukhovsky wrote the novel 'Metro 2033' when he was 18. He published the novel on his website available for free. This eventually led to a video game deal with 4A Games & a comic deal with Dark Horse comics.
GYxe5 TIL That some US States have Tax-Free Holidays
DQJae TIL socialist Karl Marx, frequently cut off from money by his parents, was supported financially by his Dutch uncle Lion Philips. Two of Lion's grandsons used that wealth themselves to found the Philips Electronics company, still worldwide-known today. Karl used that wealth... differently.
kOaQg TIL about 'Final Girl', a trope common in horror films in which several victims are killed one-by-one by a killer amid increasing terror, culminating in a climax in which the last surviving member of the group, usually female, either vanquishes the killer or escapes.