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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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4kam5 TIL The movie Footloose, which is about a town where dancing is prohibited, is inspired from a real town, Elmore City, Oklahoma. The ban started before statehood, and high-schoolers petitioned in 1980 to be able to dance at prom
WkDaA TIL that Japanese is either written vertically from top to bottom, or horizontally from left to right, or horizontally from RIGHT to left! Sometimes, both vertical and horizontal writing can be found on the same page.
VMYJ0 TIL of Magic the Miniature Therapy horse, who routinely visited hospital patients needing comfort. She visited one patient who had not spoken for three years; Upon seeing the horse, she said ‘Isn’t she beautiful?’ It caused the staff to break out in tears
5jD TIL one of the most prolific serial killers in history (who killed at least 300 young girls) was released on a $50 bail, is currently free, and likely still killing
woKZ6 TIL that a startup genetically engineered a houseplant with the air purification power of 30 ordinary plants