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TIL: “Colleges and universities have become cheerleaders and enablers of the unpaid internship boom, failing to inform young people of their rights or protect them from the miserly calculus of employers.”

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4koXJ TIL that Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian scientist, experimented with blood transfusions from younger individuals for rejuvenation. He tragically died after transfusing blood from a student with malaria and tuberculosis, though the student miraculously recovered.
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