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TIL: Syphillis destroyed so much of Al Capone’s brain, his doc and psychiatrist put Capone’s capabilities as being a 12-year old.

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PkdJ TIL El Duce (lead singer of The Mentors) claimed in an interview that Kurt Cobain had been murdered and that he knew the killer’s name. Two days later Hoke died after being hit by a train with no witnesses.
J1vrk TIL In 2002 Stephen Hawking emailed young researcher Thomas Hertog that his book A Brief History of Time is wrong. Hertog and Hawking then collaborated closely for the next 20 years, resulting in the book "On the Origin of Time" in 2023
mxL0o TIL about Brandt Kuykendal, a man who created his own ISP after discovering that he could not get reliable and fast internet in his town. He mainly built the ISP because his daughter needed fast internet to excel in school.
oRBGE TIL The Blue Angels, the U.S. Flight Navy Demonstration Squadron, formed in April 1946 as the Navy Flight Exhibition Team. They changed their name after seeing the New York nightclub, The Blue Angel. The team was first introduced as the Blue Angels during an air show in July 1946.
Lmp9 TIL that villagers in the India village of Marottichal began playing chess as an alternative to drinking after a ban on alcohol.The village is now known as ‘Chess Village’ due to its near 100% chess literacy.