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TIL that Berea College in Kentucky makes tuition FREE for all students through a work-learn program

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696pQ TIL White Clover which is used worldwide as an excellent forage crop, is also a good survival food when cooked and has lots of protein. The shoots can also be used to treat intestinal parasitic worms.
d8ood TIL in the 1990’s, a group of Mazda engineers created a suitcase “car” from a large Samsonite suitcase and a pocket bike; the suitcase car took just a minute to assemble and had a top speed of 30 km/h (18.46 mph)
awKGL TIL Japan has an almost forgotten indigenous people, the Ainu and they were only legally recognised as an indigenous people of Japan in 2019.
7rKDr TIL Botox is derived from botulism. “Sausage poison” is what Justinus Kerner called the pathogen in the 1820s; he had observed the paralytic effects after a single giant sausage sickened 13 people, six died. Decades later, named it Bacillus botulinum, after botulus, the Latin word for sausage.
oDRY TIL: A legless girl was adopted at birth, became a successful, competitive gymnast, idolizing Dominique Moceanu, and later learned that they were biological sisters.