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TIL that some interns at Google earn up to $90,000

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m1aeY TIL that when the United States entered WWII, men 21-36 were eligible to be drafted, but 50% of those conscripted were rejected for health or illiteracy reasons. To expand the available pool of draftees, Congress lowered the minimum age to 18, where it still stands today
YpkK7 TIL between 1977 and 2015, the college textbook industry has increased its prices by 1,041%. This was managed through aggressive business tactics such as forcing students to buy new versions of the same textbook and incorporating more pictures into a text to increase its length.
J1Jd8 TIL Germany’s Goettingen State University Library seeks to house everything printed in 70 Siberian and Arctic languages. In Siberia there are nearly zero publications in these languages because so many of the minority languages are nearly dead
mxbEy TIL the game Pokemon Stadium for Nintendo 64 contains a full Game Boy emulator within its code, making it possible to play Game Boy games on a Nintendo 64.
xWZ0 TIL that the dunking booth or “dunk tank”, popular in fairs and for charity events, evolved from “African dodger”, where baseballs would be thrown at the head of a black man, and hits awarded with prizes. This ‘game’ was popular in carnivals until the 1940s