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TIL of Princess Nora University, the largest women-only university in the world. It has 50,000 students, over 600 buildings, a sustainable design, a library that can hold 5 million books, multiple research hospitals, a convention center, and an automated metro system.

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rR4We TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants…It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals…We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
n5MB TIL figs aren’t always considered vegetarian. This is because when a wasp pollinates them, the fig’s inward facing flowers often trap the wasp and absorb her into the fig.
9vp6 TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
xg95 TIL on 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire.
1rV7 TIL Chadwick(the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron)