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TIL Only 29% of Americans realize that state funding for higher education fell by $9 Billion over the past decade

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j6dXE TIL of Dr. Benjamin Spock, a pediatrician whose 1946 book "Baby and Child Care" is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century. His then unconventional advice to parents to show affection to their children and to see them as individuals revolutionized how parents raised their children.
vPBrK TIL that the mechanical lifting device, the "Jack", is named after different animals in multiple languages, a donkey in english, literally "Monkey" in portuguese, and literally "Cat" in spanish.
v1aL7 TIL in the US if you are delayed by an airline for more than 4 hours because of actions that are within their control (overbooking) you are entitled to 4x the face value of the ticket. Capped at $1300.
Wk8R9 TIL over 200 years after the HMS Bounty sank due to a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, a reconstruction of the same ship sank, taking the life of Claudene Christian, a descendant of Fletcher.
VBWy4 TIL that, despite having been dead for a year, a cat was successfully registered as a certified member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants by her owner, seeking to showcase the complete lack of any verification for membership aside from payment.