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TIL medical scholars diagnosed Gollum from The Lord of the Rings with multiple personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and PTSD.

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7roXZ TIL that before artificial dentures were invented, teeth were pulled from dead soldiers to make dentures for the rich!
DQBKD TIL Finland turned down the output of a nuclear power plant because the price of electricity became "too cheap"
X0vgR TIL in 1970 one monkey's head was transplanted to the headless body of another monkey. Although the monkey was now paralyzed from neck down, they could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes. Died in 9 days because of immune rejection.
BgyWx TIL the first President of the U.S. to die in office, William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), still hasn't yet been assigned a definitive, proven cause of death by medical science; only likely ones
xV7j1 TIL: in 2015 Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game of Thrones and got a close look at the Iron Throne, but refused to take a seat because there's an old rule that says the Queen is not allowed to sit on a foreign throne.