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TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.

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8gY4 TIL Brian May, lead guitarist for Queen, has a PhD in astrophysics and is currently helping the New Horizons team examine data from Pluto
rNYvw TIL René Just Haüy founded the science of crystallography after he accidentally broke a piece of calcite and discovered that they cleaved along straight planes that met at constant angles. He broke more pieces to confirm his discovery and developed the theory of crystal structure.
nWXKP TIL of Janet Chandler a 22-years-old Michigan woman who was gang raped and killed by her colleagues in Feb 1979 because they hated her promiscuity, the case remained unsolved until in 2004 when some college students made a film called "Who killed Janet Chandler?" that led to the case being solved
Me5xW TIL of the Russian "Bitch Wars" following WW2. Prisoners who agreed to fight in WW2 in return for reduced sentences were thought of as bitches by the criminals who refused the offer, and they fought in prison.
M7pkK TIL The phrase "the dog that didn't bark" comes from the Sherlock Holmes short story "Silver Blaze," where the absence of a guard dog's barking during a crime leads Holmes to deduce that the perpetrator was someone the dog knew, not a stranger.