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TIL Rosemary Kennedy was probably never mentally ill at all. Her lobotomy was most likely as a result of the rigid expectations placed on her.

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b9Doj TIL that in 1909, a Jewish man named Jules Fisher took over a Filipino shrimping village in the bayous of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In time, he would become the president of the parish, a state senator, and an affiliate of Huey Long before dying in office at age 69.
jNPva TIL Jackie Kennedy once wrote an essay to Vogue for a competition, where the winner would win an editor position for six months in New York and six months in Paris. Out of more than 1,200 entries her essay won, but she quit on her first day.
QNeXL TIL Abraham Lincoln melted…his statue that is. No, not THAT statue, but a wax statue of him at a D.C. Elementary school. The artist used wax with a congealing point of 140 degrees, so it wasn’t expected to melt.
MewBW TIL that an estimated 10-20% of young women in industrialized countries have a contact allergy to nickel
grXv7 TIL of Irish boxer Steve Collins, who employed unusual but successful mind games such as being apparently hypnotised during fights, and listening to headphones as his opponent’s ring music played.