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TIL MIT offers free online courses, there are even courses on Quantum Physics

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YNyv TIL that the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is ‘gorilla gorilla gorilla’
Qgma TIL that Bruce Lee was also a great dancer and that he won the Hong Kong Cha-Cha Championship in 1958.
X0LeX TIL about "It's Pat," a 1994 comedy movie based on the SNL character Pat, an androgynous misfit played by Julia Sweeney. It bombed at the box office so badly (grossing only $60,822 against an $8 million budget) that Touchstone Pictures pulled it from theaters after it's opening weekend.
e0MQL TIL there have been at least 5 different Battles of Thermopylae aside from the one famously fought between the Greeks and Persians (popularized by "300") in 480 BC. The most recent of these battles was between the ANZACs and the Wermacht in 1941.
oldE TIL that the less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.