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TIL 17 yr old future President Herbert Hoover showed great talent on the math entrance exam for Stanford but he never finished high school. He received remedial tutoring in August before he was accepted into the tuition-free university, and he vowed to help other students get a Stanford education

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OoJWL TIL Tardigrades, or water bears, were filmed mating for the first time in 2016 by German researchers. The female lays eggs, the male gets into position (a process that can be several minutes); they engage in mutual stimulation till the male ejaculates his semen into the female's outer layer of skin.
X0Mgj TIL Zheng Yi Sao was one of history's most prolific pirates and also a woman! A sex worker who married the head of a prolific pirating organization, she inherited it after his death & her marriage to her stepson. Captured by the East India Co, she still remained wealthy until her death aged 68.
bea0 TIL several European countries prescribe free heroin to addicts in order to improve there “social and health situation” while “significantly reduce[ing] costs incurred by trials, incarceration, health interventions and delinquency.”
6EZbZ TIL that most cars and carriages in the US, before the success of the Model T, had the driver sitting on the right. The Model T was so popular, that other automakers followed suit.
bDN TIL That the possible arrangements for a deck of 52 cards, is larger than the number of seconds that have elapsed since the universe began.