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TIL The amazing James Randi exposed a fraudulent "Faith Healer" named Peter Popoff who was using a ear mic to fool believers into divine healing.

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xkj0 TIL In 1945, Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.
x6jOD TIL during an exploration around Peru, in 1940 pilots spotted an isolated hamlet in the jungle. The village was founded by Carlos Fitzcarrald around 1890: and was inhabited by rubber tappers who were apart of his colonizing effort, before the end of the rubber boom isolated them. Story in comments.
GANwj TIL of Richard Lancelyn Green. The world's leading expert on Sherlock Holms who was found dead in mysterious circumstances after trying to stop Arthur Connan Doyle's letters being exported from the UK
LkQ59 Scientists have isolated the brains of dogs, cats and monkeys and kept them alive for short periods in one way or another. But the most successful "whole-brain preparation" of a mammal was developed in the mid-1980s. A neuroscientist at NYU Langone Medical Center named Rodolfo Llinás came up with a way to keep the brain of a young guinea pig alive in a fluid-filled tank for the length of a standard workday.
9VYX TIL Many migraine sufferers experience after effects such as lack of energy and mental fog, which is called the “postdrome”.