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TIL - Until the 1990s, doctors believed that infants couldn’t remember pain. Millions of children were operated on without proper anesthesia or sufficient pain management. “the single greatest mistake in the whole of medical history”

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OoN57 TIL: You can "TAKE YOUR SECRET TO THE GRAVE" without dying. A hollow tombstone in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery has a slot for depositing papers bearing secrets. (But at your own risk: the artist who says she'll burn the papers has done "performance art" of reading aloud her own dead mom's diary.)
ep4P6 TIL of Feodor Protar, "The Saint of Beaver Island". A European actor who came to a small island in Lake Michigan to seek enlightenment. However, he ended up becoming a doctor to the locals who lacked one, despite having no formal medical training. When he died, they built a tomb and monument for him
OGbaa TIL the NEW River in West Virginia is the fourth oldest river in the world
mxg0O TIL Rosetta Stone was discovered during the Egyptian campaign by Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces in 1799. It became the essential key to the modern understanding of ancient Egyptian literature and civilisation
YpEaB TIL that countries attempting to exert influence over elections abroad is not a new thing: the country with the most attempts to influence foreign elections is reported to be America.