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TIL that nerves can be grafted and spliced like wires, fixing damage to muscle control or pain

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0wRMR TIL Hitler wanted to make Oxford the Capital of his new Kingdom, because he adored the architecture. This is also why Oxford wasn’t bombed.
OoEW7 TIL A man who suffered from severe OCD cured himself whith a bullet through the front of his brain while attempting suicide.
WKBA TIL 500 people are declared dead in the US every month due to clerical errors.
geQA TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a “hissing street pedlar” and an “enemy of the human race”. He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.
6jdm TIL of Kiyoko Matsumoto, who in 1933 committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. Japan. This started a trend in Japan, and in the year after her death 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater