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TIL that B. F. Skinner invented a temperature controlled baby crib that he called the “heir conditioner”.

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pYvZb TIL about a rare kind of migraine that mimics a stroke, called a hemiplegic migraine.
aKjb TIL that in 1988, Iran began a country-wide purge of political prisoners. People were beaten for missing daily prayers. One woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, and the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was ‘she who had made the decision not to pray’.
MeVOW TIL of the "Monkey Love Experiments" where infant monkeys were housed with two artificial mothers: one, made only of wire, dispensed food, while the other had no food but was made of soft terrycloth. The monkeys spent nearly all of their time clinging to the soft mother despite the lack of food.
QN04E TIL NBA player JaVale McGee and his mother, former WNBA player Pamela McGee, are the only mother/son duo in history to win Olympic gold medals.
v17Lj TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob's withdrawal from Vegas.