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TIL Yale University has more administrative staff (5,118) than undergraduates (4,703)

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lXMN TIL that a tennis linesman got killed when a legendary player accidentally hit a serve to his balls.
0dadN TiL Shift Key's name originated from the typewriter, where one had to press and hold the button to shift up the case to UPPERCASE from lowercase .
Q0gL TIL that DeVry University is a publicly traded corporation whose goal, above all others, is to make a profit.
VwBp TIL kangaroos barely emit any methane. Scientists want to harvest the bacteria from their colons so they can transfer this “skill” to cows, thereby reducing greenhouse gases.
b958N TIL the Nazis were very close to developing plutonium, a material used to make atomic bombs. However, the factory producing it was bombed by a team of 11 Norwegian saboteurs, one of them stopping the operation to find his glasses at one point, completely destroying the equipment related.