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TIL. There is a program for severely autistic children that is having a remarkable rate of Improvement. The Son Rise program.

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11v4 TIL that a 1976 episode of Sesame Street featured The Wicked Witch of the West becoming the crush of Oscar the Grouch and threatening to turn Big Bird into a feather duster, among other things. The episode was aired only once because “the threat of the witch’s power [remained] in children’s eyes.”
d8p87 TIL, having trouble getting out of bed in the morning is indicative of an underlying medical condition called dysania.
N74NJ TIL: Of the United States' 2.9 million female high school athletes, only 3% are cheerleaders, yet cheerleading accounts for nearly 65% of all catastrophic injuries in girls' high school athletics and carries the highest rate of catastrophic injuries in sports.
WkBvY Today I learned there is an ethnic group in Myanmar known as the "Karen People".
KOv1E TIL there's no archaeological evidence that the siege of Masada ended with the mass suicide of its defenders.