› added 4 months ago

46

TIL There were experiments conducted in the 1950s where researchers gave their subjects manual control over the pleasure centers of their brains through the click of a button, wired to surgically implanted electrodes.

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

6bpl TIL The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991(Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004.
J1Jvm TIL Barbara Bagley sued herself for the wrongful death of her husband. The district court dismissed the complaint, concluded that a person cannot simultaneously act as plaintiff and defendant in a wrongful death or survival action suit.
e0ZDD TIL, actress Nancy Morgan who had the role of Paula Powers in the 1977 film Grand Theft Auto got married to John Ritter that same year. 1977 was also the year that Three's Company debuted onto TV, since John Ritter had a role as Jack in that show.
e0raJ TIL blobfish don't normally look all blobby and only look like that when they're pulled from the deep ocean. Its due to the pressure difference
p860O TIL that Virginia has spent 100 years asking Minnesota for the return of a Confederate Flag captured at the Battle of Gettysburg...and Minnesota keeps saying no.