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TIL Stone Age people used to practice trepanning – an early medical procedure that involved drilling a hole in the skull. The patients didn’t all die. Lots of skulls have been found with partly healed holes.

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9bdr TIL of a man named Simon Bunce who was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.
xvAb TIL-In an interview with David Letterman in 1983, Frank Zappa said that he approached NBC in 1968 with an idea for a show that would take people in politics/rock n’ roll/the arts and let them discuss news topics. 10 years later in 1993, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher hit the airwaves.
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