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TIL Admission to engineering at ETHz (ranked 3rd globally) is guaranteed to every Swiss Citizen who passes their highschool exams and semester tuitions is under $700 for both national and international students

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x6j1D TIL that gorillas eat the peel of bananas
E1Jew TIL that India installed the world's highest public telephone booth on the 20,000-foot Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas, so soldiers could phone home.
a8kBN TIL about Kazuo Nagano, a Japanese fraudster murdered at home in front of 40 reporters after he was caught stealing 12 billion yen from the elderly. None intervened and the killer only got 10 years in prison.
p840Q TIL that Angkor, the capital of the Khmer empire, was the largest city in the world during the middle ages. At 1,350 sq. miles, it was bigger than modern day NYC and Tokyo combined.
9YXYp TIL about TRIS, a flame retardant that has been shown to cause cancer. However, TRIS and many other flame retardants are widespread in homes and are linked to a wide range of toxic effects even though they might not even work.