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TIL The Inventor of the frontal lobotomy won a Nobel Prize in medicine

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QJrD9 TIL In 2001, Pizza Hut Delivered a Pizza to the International Space Station.
eYk5 TIL British journalist Lanre Fehintola voluntarily got addicted to Heroin in order to help him understand the lifestyle he was writing about. Last heard of him, he is still battling the addiction.
D1vNr TIL, mongooses found in Hawai’i are native to India and were originally introduced to Hawai’i Island in 1883 by the sugar industry to control rats in sugarcane fields and have since caused the extinction of 8 federally listed endangered Hawaiian birds.
na5Y TIL Malala Yousafzai titled her book, “I am Malala” as an act of defiance against the soldier who shot her for attending school. The last thing she remembered hearing was him asking, “Which one of you is Malala?”.
6EPGZ TIL that Purple Passion Fruit (Passiflora incarnata) not only is used as herbal medicine. You can dry and use the leaves to make tea and can also smoke the dry leaf. Study’s shown that the extract from the plant performs as well as some benzodiazepines but with fewer side effects.