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TIL A 20 year-old woman was kept as a (sex-)slave in a box for 23 hours a day between 1977 and 1984; at one point she was permitted to even visit her family, yet still returned to her captors.

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AN7Bd Today I learned that the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, were second cousins. So they needed a papal dispensation for their marriage.
l56r TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later .
GALYN TIL that William C. Minor, an M.D. from Yale and schizophrenic, killed a man and then became a brilliant linguistic scholar and a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, while in an asylum for the insane
ADB9o TIL that today, August 22, is the feast day of St. Guinefort, the Dog Venerated as a Saint
0nDL TIL that Owen J. Baggett, an American pilot in WW2 became the first pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft while parachuting with an M1911 pistol