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TIL The CIA has admitted to torturing people in a failed attempted to brainwash them.

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p8rPA TIL that during his early years, Peter the Great's half-sister Sophia cut a hole in the back of his throne and would whisper information and answers to him while he conversed with nobles.
GYa0E TIL that the pipe organ is more than 1000 years older than the piano, which means someone thought it was smarter to build a whole cathedral around a single instrument than just build a new instrument.
R7loa TIL: Martin Couney set up infant incubator shows at Coney Island, Atlantic City and World's Fairs, charging 25c to view premature babies. He offered free care for 'weakling babies', proving the success of incubators. He saved over 6,500 babies from ~1900-43.
OG0mR TIL the vagina is only ONE of the internal organs of the female reproductive system, and what we see from outside is the vulva, the external part of the female reproductive system, (made up from the labia, clitoris, among others)
6E5ew TIL up to 95% of the historic structures in the city of Mecca have been demolished over the last three decades. Many of the sites were over 1000 years old and many were connected to the life and times of the prophet Muhammad and his companions.