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TIL that Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister, was given a lobotomy at age 23. The family feared she would disgrace their reputation.

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69EmX TIL of SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin. A German football club who, after the only other team in Berlin were kicked out the league got an unexpected promotion to the top league. The German FA wanted to keep a club in the city of Berlin for political reasons. They remain the worst team in Bundesliga history.
EJeV TIL Usain Bolt has never won a bronze medal in major competition. He has 16 golds and two silvers to his name.
oBJ0A TIL The TV series 'Hannibal' had a shot of a naked flayed couple. NBC thought this was unacceptable because their buttcracks were fully visible. The director offered to fill their buttcracks with blood to make it less offensive. NBC agreed.
0wLx1 TIL, Saint Edith Stein was a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism. In 1942, she became a prisoner of the Nazis. A dutch official offered her escape from Auschwitz but she refused, preferring to "share in the fate of her brothers and sisters".
jAeR TIL that George Washington was, 179 years after his death, permanently made superior to any other five-star general/admiral with the title general of the armies.