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TIL For nearly four months in 1947 Howard Hughes sat fixated in a chair, often naked, continually watching movies.

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wL5KJ Historical photos show fishermen with chinooks almost as tall as they are. A century's worth of dam-building, overfishing, habitat loss and hatcheries has cut the size of the average fish in half.
x6NXb TIL the survivors of a wrecked whaling ship were so afraid of non-existent cannibals on much closer pacific islands that they chose to sail a considerably larger distance. This resulted in only five of seventeen surviving and, ironically, the survivors resorting to cannibalism.
VMBaD TIL The code to inform US troops that South Vietnam was lost and should be evacuated instantly, was a weather report followed by the song "White Christmas"... in April.
8R08 TIL that the US airforce dropped pamphlets in Hiroshima warning people of the bombing
697mW TIL I learned you can have Down syndrome and Tourette and autism at the same time and it happened. You can also have alzheimer and parkinson because both affect different part of the brain. You could then have down syndrome tourette autism alzheimer and parkinson at the same time, that would be wild