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TIL it's dangerous to bathe during a thunderstorm

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mxgZx TIL about a place called Elan School which promised to "fix" your teenager for $40k a year. Turns out they were forced to live in squalor, physically fight, and psychologically abuse each other to earn basic privileges like food and sleep.
VMRVZ TIL that Hotmail used to be written HoTMaiL because it was designed to include the letters HTML.
W9oo TIL, that mathematician, George Dantzig solved a simplex linear problem, that was thought to be impossible to solve, by accident, because he arrived late to class, and thought the problem on the board was a homework assignment.
J7m8 TIL London has a secret, 2nd underground rail network
8aO0L TIL Kynodesme was common in ancient greece.