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TIL that Pearson (a London textbook company) makes $90 million per year to make the state of Texas standardized test (this does not include profit from textbook sales). Every few years they change the contents of the test so that school are forced to buy new books for the new curriculum.

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b6ngj TIL there is a Star Wars Christmas album from 1980, and it featured the first professional recording of Jon Bon Jovi on the song “R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
7rgKZ TIL the man in Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is not the one screaming, nature is. Munch says it depicts "a vast infinite scream through nature" that he felt. Because of the red skies in Norway at the time some believe that The Scream was from the Krakatoa Eruption.
4k9Kg TIL Alaska missed 11 days during the transfer from the Russian Empire to the US in 1867, since they switched from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar
kOrEE TIL "Eddie Would Go." Eddie would go is a cult saying attributed to lifeguard legend Eddie Aikau. Eddie saved over 500 people while lifeguarding. Ultimately he died while trying to save others. He was often cited as braving conditions that nobody else would in order to save others. Eddie would go
lodL1 TIL researches at Uni. of Oklahoma injected almost 300 MG of LSD into a male Indian elephant in 1967. Within 5 minutes he collapsed; slightly under two hours later he was dead.