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

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VBkNk TIL that the “n” in 7-ELEVEn is lowercase because the company president’s wife thought the all-caps was too harsh and, with a lowercase letter, the logo looked more graceful.
0dbkp TIL Water is at its most dense at 4 degrees Celsius
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