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TIL that the neurologist who invented lobotomy (António Egas Moniz) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for this highly invasive procedure, which is widely considered today to be one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.

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R5lRQ TIL Celine Dion met her husband when she was 12 and he was… 38
DJWV TIL Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue full of joke science, like one paper that said men die before women because they are stupid. But years later these articles are cited by scientists as real, and this is causing a lot of problems.
epeMg TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries
PxaZ TIL that six generations of inbreeding spanning the years 1800 to 1960 caused an isolated population of humans living in the hills of Kentucky to become blue-skinned. One these people - Dennis Stacy - had the same great-great grandfather on both his mother’s and father’s side.
XEwAr TIL about Miles Copeland Jr., a former jazz trumpeter whose work as a CIA officer inspired the names of his sons' music ventures: Miles III started a record label, International Record Syndicate (IRS); Ian, a talent agency, Frontier Booking International (FBI); and Stewart, a drummer, The Police.