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TIL how schools are making kids dumb.

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9ndr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
Zpexv TIL that, in a resting state, the brain consumes about 20% of the body's energy. The sight and hearing parts of the brain consume far more energy than parts used for smell and memory. Also, white matter only uses 20-25% of energy as gray matter.
eK44 TIL Robert Erskine Childers, an Irish Nationalist who smuggled guns into Ireland during their civil war and was sentenced to death, shook hands with the firing squad members and told them when they were about to shoot “Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way.”
G4e4 TIL that Lisbon is nearly four centuries older than Rome, and is the second oldest European capital after Athens.
oLGo TIL of the Ashley Treatment. A hormonal and sometimes surgical way to keep a cognitively and physically impaired individual the size of a child for ease of care.