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TIL about Berea College. Founded by abolitionists in 1855, it's what's called a "work college" -- every student has a job on campus alongside their classes. This keeps costs down and no student pays tuition. There are nine work colleges in the U.S. where students pay little or no tuition.

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wLemP TIL of Rebecca Chittum, a girl who was switched at birth with another girl and the mistake wasn’t discovered for 3 years. The day that the swap was realized, her biological parents died in a tragic car accident.
ep6k6 TIL that in the early '80s the CIA helped facilitate the widespread sale of cocaine in poor L.A. neighborhoods to help finance the covert war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The journalist who revealed this later killed himself after a smear campaign.
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