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TIL in the US college text books can cost more than $1,000.

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x46w TIL FEDEX was charged with distribution of controlled substances and conspiracy to distribute misbranded drugs when the DEA told it to stop a list of drug dealers, but refused to give the list when FEDEX tried to comply. FEDEX pleaded not guilty, since they had no way to tell who was on the list.
x6rDo TIL the marbled lungfish's genome contains 133 billion base pairs, making it the largest known genome of any vertebrate
8DgK TIL Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, is the only moon in our solar system with a retrograde orbit - an orbit in the opposite direction its planet, and is thus thought to be a dwarf planet that Neptune caught from the Kuiper belt.
R591j TIL ironically, the novel Fahrenheit 451 has been banned, censored, or redacted in several schools since its publication, including at a school in Montgomery County, Texas, in 2006, where the parents where offended by the burning of the Bible. The book was also burned in Apartheid South Africa.
yVonv TIL that the world's longest carrot ever grown was over 20 ft long. (6.245 m)