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TIL that, Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed orgasms prevented mental illness and he fought droughts and UFOs with giant energy guns. In the 1950s, the government called him a fraud, burned his books, and busted up his lab in Rangeley.

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O4Q6 TIL After Mark Twain met Helen Keller at a dinner party he was so impressed with her that he wrote to the wife Henry H. Rogers, a wealthy oil magnate, pleading her to convince her husband to support Keller’s education. Mr. Rogers agreed and personally paid her entire education.
QJooL TIL There's a German children's song about monkeys searching a coconut, which goes "The monkeys race through the woods, each one wanting to kill the other" and ending in "And the moral of the story: Do not steal coconuts".
JMym TIL the Great Mosque of Paris sheltered Jews during the Holocaust and supplied them with Muslim identity certificates
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695NJ TIL That in response to a lawsuit, hackers from the Anonymous group took PlayStation network offline for 23 days and leaked the creditcard informations of 77 million users