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TIL that Romanian communist-era dictator Ceaușescu planned to demolish up to half of Romanian villages to "systemize" and fully socialize rural life. However, he was executed shortly after the first phase started. Plan was then canceled.

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awEA9 TIL about Trimethylamine disorder that makes sufferers smell like rotting fish, rotting eggs, garbage, or urine.
l6bB TIL around 762, the demand for books in Baghdad was so high that any traders who brought books were given the weight of the books in gold in return.
DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.
4Xvk5 TIL in the 1970s, physicists used a diapered ferret to assist them in cleaning the inside of a particle accelerator. The ferret, named Felicia, made dozens of runs before retiring as a pet on a mink farm.
oRmxr TIL that Monday kicked off Good Night Lights week in Providence, RI, where each night at 8:30pm residents with a view of Hasbro Children’s Hospital flicker lights in their homes for one minute to signal goodnight to patients there.