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TIL MIT, often cited as one of the world’s most prestigious universities, puts almost all of its course materials online for anyone to access for free.

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VMjb4 TIL the Hindenburg airship which infamously exploded in 1937 was constructed with aluminum salvaged from the wreckage of a British R101 airship that crashed in 1930 killing 48 passengers.
Wk5k8 TIL about the italian revolutionary Nicola Bombacci. He has been the first italian to meet the Russian Bolsheviks, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1921, and one of the best friends and mentors of Benito Mussolini, with whom he was hanged at the end of WWII.
xV0a1 TIL of déjà rêvé (from French, meaning "already dreamed") - the feeling of having already dreamed something that you are now experiencing.
PYe6G TIL that in June 2017, a tire shop in Fort Worth, Texas, was robbed so often that the owner bought a guard dog. The next time the shop was robbed, the intruders stole the dog.
pjRN TIL the bite in Apples logo was originally meant to hold the letter “a” in Apples old logo