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TIL that starting in May of 2013, some 40% of college students will technically be diagnosed as alcoholics

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6EO1W TIL that the graffiti artist who painted Facebook's office is now worth $200 million after taking stock options before Facebook's IPO instead of cash
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R58MQ TIL that the last Prisoner of War of WW2 who has been repatriated was Hungarian András Toma in 2000, captured in 1945 by the Red Army. He was sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1947 and got removed from the POW lists because of that.