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TIL that neuroscientist James Fallon discovered he was a psychopath while doing imaging studies on Alzheimer's patients.

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NXYx6 TIL that in 1835, Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson, marking the first such attempt on a sitting U.S. president. Lawrence's two pistols both misfired, allowing Jackson who was 67 at the time to respond by beating him with his cane until he was restrained.
1dlX TIL Snoop Dogg Says the only person that has “out-smoked” him is Willie Nelson, saying, “that’s the only person that’s ever smoked me under the table.”
M7D8a TIL, Rosa Luxemburg said her famous quote "remember, those who do not move, do not notice their chains" shortly before shot and killed by a German Nationalist. The man who planned the killing was Waldemar Pabst a fanatical nationalist officer whose paramilitaries became the rank and file for Nazism.
OGBrY TIL scientists made a computer model and concluded that giraffes would perform poorly compared to other mammals and are hence likely to avoid swimming if possible.
kOJVm TIL Africville was a black community in Halifax dating from 1840s but razed in the mid-1960s and its 400 residents were relocated as part of a redevelopment plan. Moving Africvillers into the city was seen by the government as a way to integrate them and meet their needs