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TIL Texas has the luxury of the Permanent University Fund, which uses oil revenues from state owned lands to underwrite higher education capital costs. As of December 2008, the fund holds $8.8 billion in investments.

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4k0Ag TIL the OTAN initials in NATO's emblem are its french name
781JM TIL: A geochron is an analog clock that displays day and night on a world map, changing over the course of the day, showing the familiar “bell curve” of light and darkness
74GZ TIL that people who read books for at least 30 minutes a day live longer than those who don’t read at all.
Qgdk TIL In 1935, Sigmund Freud replied to a mother concerned about her son’s homosexuality by saying “ it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness” and “ It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too.”
XljR TIL of Lauri Törni, a Finnish soldier that after fighting in the winter war against the USSR, he joined the SS and kept fighting until the end WW2. After WW2, he migrated to the US and joined the US Army, and died in combat in Vietnam in 1965 by which time he had earned high ranking U.S. awards.