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TIL in the 1980s a man with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder 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

pYEWb TIL that at age 16, Einstein took the entrance exam for the college, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and he failed it. The language and history sections were the sections he struggled on. He did well on the math and science sections.
wLNNo TIL about the secret bunker at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia that was meant to house Congress in case of a nuclear fallout during the Cold War
yVWgl TIL, “Catsup” is one of the earlier variations of the word that eventually evolved into “ketchup.” While “ketchup” now specifically refers to the tomato sauce, “catsup” originally described a wider variety of sauces, not necessarily tomato-based.
lopx7 TIL that Perth is the most remote major city in the world. Perth is so isolated that it is quicker, easier, and cheaper to fly to Bali then to fly to the east coast. The nearest city of at least 100,000 people is Adelaide, around 1300 miles away.
16wM7 TIL the mother of the last Comanche chief was a white woman who was kidnapped at age 9 & assimilated into the tribe. She later married a chieftain & bore him 3 children before she was found at age 33 & returned to her bio-family. She never accepted white society & committed suicide by starvation.