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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.

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rw40 TIL wasps have complete voluntary control over the sex of their offspring.
KabQ TIL of Perotine Guernsey, a pregnant woman burned as a heretic in 1556; during the burning she delivered her son, who was rescued from the fire only to be thrown back in by order of the magistrate.
M74pb TIL the invasive plant Kudzu spreads 150,000 acres annually in the Southern US. It can even now be seen in New York. Kudzu damages and kills plants by smothering them under a blanket of leaves. It has become one of the greatest environmental concerns for parks today.
OweR TIL in 1998 Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped to ruin his career.
LkpaQ TIL that cashew trees are in the same family as poison ivy and poison sumac. They are usually sold shelled and roasted because if not, the shell oil may cause a skin reaction similar to poison ivy.