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TIL the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion was 14 years old and is now funded by the federal government for nuclear research

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p88JZ TIL that Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist (a person who treats the nervous system). He invented the treatment of mental illness and neurosis by means of psychoanalysis.
9YaXp TIL that the first person to use a pacemaker and the doctor who implanted it were born in the same year, with the patient outliving the doctor.
dlVZ TIL in 1933 six thousand people were deported to an island in the Soviet Union and left with only flour to eat and no shelter. Guards would hunt people like animals, deliberately sink ships full of people and cannibalism became common.
7reM7 TIL that while dolphins are known to be intelligent and friendly, some males are known to bash unrelated dolphin calves to death so they are able to mate with their mothers. They also practice herding, in which many males pressure a female for sex using displays of aggression.
D1p4j TIL that a new type of condom additive was approved for mass production in Australia that could kill STDs, including HIV and herpes