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TIL that the price of college textbooks has risen faster than the price of houses and inflation. AND there is a company that provides FREE online college textbooks that are almost identical to the ones we are paying top-dollar for.

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N7vG6 TIL Sepsis patients often have undetectable levels of vitamin C [scurvy], compared to healthy patients. Animals produce increased levels when they are stressed, but humans are unable to make vitamin C. Doctors are using intravenous vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine to treat sepsis.
BEKd TIL that fourteen years after Wild Bill Hickok’s death, in 1900, an aging Calamity Jane arranged to be photographed next to his overgrown burial site. Elderly, thin and poor, her clothes were ragged and held together with safety pins.
8e0wL TIL that Detroit has a small canal system
bZpa TIL teleportation was used in Star Trek because the budget didn’t allow for expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets
LpPZ TIL that Joan of Arc’s companion was a paedophilic serial killer whose victim count was in the 800s