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TIL college textbook prices have risen 1000% since 1977.

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GY051 TIL when John Carpenter was at University he was required to visit a mental institution and saw a boy with a blank, pale, emotionless face who eventually became the inspiration for Michael Myers in his Halloween movies.
XEjgX TIL of the Hybrid Assistive Limb, a commercially available exoskeleton suit
brDZ TIL it is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform. It takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious.
VMaZp TIL a study found people can accurately gauge the intelligence of men, but not women, by viewing their faces. Both men and women were able to accurately evaluate the intelligence of men by viewing facial photographs, but with women, no relationship between perceived intelligence and IQ was found.
6M0Z TIL “not clapping hard enough” was one of the reasons Jang Sung-taek, former North Korean official, was executed for