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TIL that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still used today to treat severe depression.

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n7JG TIL It’s possible to listen to records that no longer exist by extracting audio from pictures of them
ok48 TIL that every single tweet you’ve sent is now part of the Library of Congress. Twitter agreed to provide them with every tweet ever sent & continues to supply tweets to the Library’s archive on an ongoing basis.
6bEQ TIL at a Marine Mammal Studies Institute, dolphins were trained to turn in trash that fell into the pools in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide pieces of paper under a rock, tearing off smaller pieces from the paper in order to get more fish out of it.
pYyw4 TIL in 1862 John Langdon Down was the first to describe a distinct mental disability, calling it "Mongolism" due to his perception that children with it shared facial similarities. Now called Down Syndrome, was discovered in the 1950s to be caused by the presence a third copy of chromosome 21.
oBKAE TIL that when Bruce Springsteen was 19, he dodged his army draft by behaving "crazily" during the induction and not writing anything in tests. He later went on to write the song "Born in the USA" which was the singer’s reflection on the plight of American veterans returning home from Vietnam.