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TIL that Albert Brooks’ birth name is Albert Einstein.

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malp TIL of Rotherham, England. A town where approx. 1400 sexual child abuse cases occurred but were never solved because those in charge didn’t want to be deemed as racist and for fear of losing job.
9wb0X TIL a UC Davis student committed suicide because he was worried that he wouldn't get into graduate school
ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.
9YZv7 TIL that Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody has now hit the billboard hot 100 in three separate decades.
awBJ TIL that Vasili Arkhipov was a soviet submariner who, during the Cuban missile crisis, talked his captain down from firing a nuclear torpedo at US destroyers.