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TIL that Cincinnati has a “ghost” subway - a set of tunnels and stations that were built but never used

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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.
W7jV8 TIL: There is an actual non joke study which studies the influence of CUMS in male rats. CUMS stood for Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress. The CUMS rats were deprived of water, food, and had their cage tilted with white noise and 2 stranger rats with them to study how it effects their libido.
ZplwY TIL that 17 million telegrams are still sent every year. By comparison, over 200 billion e-mails are sent every day. They are most commonly sent to meet certain legal requirements or to express congratulations or condolences.
kOENe TIL that in 1867, Van Zandt County, located in northeast Texas, decided to secede from the United States, as well as Texas. While celebrating their newfound independence, many citizens became intoxicated, and the U.S. Army easily regained control
JYe4k TIL you’d weigh the same on Mercury as you would on Mars. Due to the much higher density of Mercury, the smaller planet has almost identical surface gravity as Mars.