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TIL: A Chicago high school played Justin Bieber's "Baby" in between classes in the hallways. As a fundraising technique they made students pay to stop the song. They raised $1,000 in three days.

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7rm1M TIL about Karl Richard Lepsius, a Prussian egyptologist who led an expedition to the Great Pyramids of Giza during the 1840s, leaving behind a hieroglyphic graffiti above its entrance, praising the patron of the project, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
bMdE TIL – Sharks Get Suntans but Don’t Get Skin Cancer from Sun Exposure
e0Gp4 TIL despite being in DC, the seal of Georgetown University says "Georgetown College on the Banks of the Potomac in Maryland" as the university was founded in 1789, 12 years before it became part of DC.
aYN9 TIL that the same man invented heroin and aspirin.
5LdD TIL the founder of ValueJet, whose company was shut down over fatal accidents, is now the CEO of Allegiant Air.