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oBlQA TIL Finland is the only country in the world with regulated 10-month emergency supply of critical medical equipment, medicine, energy and more
l7YJG TIL JFK's sister, Rosemary, was subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy when she was 23 years of age by request of her father. It left her incapacitated and unable to speak intelligibly. The Kennedy family did not explain her absence until 1961, where they said it was on account of "mental retardation".
Zpwpo TIL about Larry Hoover, a gang leader of CBGD, or Chicago's Black Gangster Disciples Nation. After being sent to prison, he was inspired by the biography of Richard J. Daley and decided to change his gangs GD to Growth and Development, and forced his army learn to better their community instead.
xwl0 TIL in 1982 a U of TX student received a C for a paper he wrote in support of the ratification of a 1789 amendment to the constitution regarding Congress’s pay because it was deemed “unrealistic”. In response he started a campaign to ratify it, and 10 years later it became the 27th amendment.
p8aNA TIL - The Song “Rubber Duckie” by Ernie from Sesame Street, reached #16 on the Billboard charts in September of 1970.