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TIL that the average university student in 1979 only had to work 182 hours per year (a part-time summer job) to pay for tuition, whereas the average 2013 student had to work 991 hours (a full-time job for half the year)

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yQgvX TIL about Giovanni de Ventura, a municipal plague doctor for the town of Pavia in late XV century Italy. He wasn't to require fees from treating patients, as the city of Pavia provided generously for him in terms of salary. He may also have donned the "beak doctor" attire.
XojQ TIL Cilantro (Coriander) is supposed to taste pleasantly fresh and like citrus. Scientists are still not sure why it tastes unpleasant and soapy for some people (including me).
0a8A TIL over 133,000 people signed a petition stating they would prefer a different artist to headline instead of Kanye West at the Glastonbury Music Festival 2015
Mkpb TIL that Oriental Hornets are able to harvest the sun’s light and convert it to energy with their yellow stripes in their head and abdomen.
KYYmE TIL that the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco, California, has the highest rodent density of any island in the world, with over a thousand mice per acre. Visitors to the islands can, at times, see the ground moving when the mice are burrowing their underground tunnels.