› added 4 years ago

46

TIL when the University of California, San Diego is moving from being a D2 school to a D1 school in college sports, students will have to pay an additional $480 per year in fees

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XE0X8 TIL Walt Disney holds the record for the most Academy Awards in history for wins and nominations. He won 22 Oscars (Plus 3 Honorary Awards) and had 52 nominations.
P1a8w TIL that the first Special Emmy Award ever given out went to Louis McManus for designing the Emmy itself - and he didn't even get the statue, but rather a plaque.
YlBv TIL that a Oleg Losev, a Russian inventor sans degree, discovered the LED, as well as negative resistance oscillators, amplifiers and superheterodyne receivers…all 25 years before the transistor. His only job title was technician.
KOabB TIL about Mitsuyasu Maeno, a Japanese porn star who got so mad at a corrupt politician for betraying far right nationalists and violating ancient samurai code that he kamikazed a plane into his house
YKlr TIL that Confucius’s family has the longest recorded extant pedigree in the world with 83 generations and two million registered descendants.