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TIL Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to send him for more electroshock treatments because he lost so much of his memory he couldn’t even remember his own name. He committed suicide the day after his 36th shock treatment.

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8XeG TIL Theodore Roosevelt killed over 11,400 animals on his expedition to Africa, it took over 8 years for the Smithsonian to catalog all of them.
8axKb TIL the tall cone-shaped “princess hat” is called a hennin. They originated with the warrior queens of Mongolia and became fashionable in Europe after Marco Polo brought one back from his travels.
OGgpY TIL of Reginald Hamilton Earnshaw, believed to have been the youngest person in the British services to die in World War II at just 14 years old.
mxDny TIL Las Fallas is an annual Festival in Valencia, Spain. The monuments that are built represent satiric scenes in order to criticise popular aspects of the society such as politics and the current social situation. The Fallas then are burnt at the final event called "la cremá"
daaK TIL around 1000 AD there was a Native American city with a population around 50,000, and that archeologists aren’t sure how it became a ghost town by 1300 AD.