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TIL Retention rates among students studying engineering are among the lowest of all majors

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XEPnX TIL After Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská lost her training facility due to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, she trained for the 1968 Olympics in the forest using potato sacks as weights and logs as beams. She medaled in all six events, four of them Gold.
Gn1G TIL a man sued the Australian Knitting Mills for his underwear giving him “Itchy Nuts”
XEYgD TIL the phrase "Bucket List" originated with the 2007 film "The Bucket List," and there have been no written examples that suggest it was in use before then.
v1aer TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza was already 2,500 years old when Cleopatra was ruler.
V9JQ TIL: The U.S bought Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 for $7.2million ($122million today). Since 1959 Alaska has produced $157billion worth of oil. That’s a return of nearly 130,000%!