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TIL - Russian Crimean War debt was so large that Alexander II, realizing the difficulty of defending Alaska, decided to sell it to the United States, in 1867

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yQ0B8 TIL when the University of California, San Diego is moving from being a D2 school to a D1 school in college sports, students will have to pay an additional $480 per year in fees
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