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TIL the University of Phoenix spends more on marketing and advertising than on teaching and classroom expenses

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R57pj TIL of East Asian age reckoning. An age counting system common in China Korea Japan and Vietnam. People are considered to be one the day they are born and on New Years Day a year is added. This creates the scenario where children born on December 31 become two-year-olds the very next day.
Wko69 TIL that the King Cobras are cannibals, they eat other snakes. Its venom is a pure neurotoxin. It kills by asphyxiation, brings a complete shutdown of the neuro system and breathing collapses. They can grow up to 18 feet long, king cobra can raise a third of its body and look a human in the eye.
VMZmZ TIL There is a chlamydia epidemic among koalas.
16v0d TIL about Tehching Hsieh, a performance artist who jumped off buildings, went homeless voluntarily and punched a time clock every hour for a year in the name of art.
worJY TIL Millipedes are not insects—they’re more closely related to lobsters, shrimp, and crayfish.