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TIL Bill Maher Promoted: Cell Phones was Scam Back in 2003

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d8Rg8 TIL babies were not anesthetized during surgery until the early eighties
OGVY1 TIL in 1996 Björk had a stalker who mailed her a letter bomb rigged with sulfuric acid, before filming his own suicide by shotgun. Police found the tape and intercepted the package before it arrived.
x68G1 TIL that there exists real footage of one of the most unethical psychological experiments. Its the conformity experiment from Stanley Milgram and was conducted after the atrocities of WW2. It shows a real participant truly believing that he's conforming to killing another subject.
6dLw TIL That Ted Bundy helped detectives by giving his perspective as a serial killer to help capture Gary Ridgeway, The Green River Killer.
4k95w TIL 8.5 million people died because of the first world war