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TIL Eton College - one of the most expensive schools in Britain - was originally founded to provide free education to poor boys

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GXX4 TIL that in America’s Terrorist List, most are American protesters against environmental destruction.
QJEAd TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout attempted to make a neutron gun and irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until he got arrested.
KOR4B TIL An English Man was fined for pretending to be a ghost in Portsmouth cemetery in 2014
yVV5p TIL that an animals pupil shape is an indicator of that animal being the hunter (vertical or round) or the prey (horizontal).
4n6b TIL Sony and other Japanese companies have banishment rooms where they transfer surplus employees and give them menial or useless tasks or even nothing to do until they become depressed or disheartened enough to quit on their own, thus not getting full benefits