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TIL neuroscientist James Fallon discovered he was a psychopath while studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior.

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5yOr TIL on December 8, 1941 over 81% of American households tuned in to FDR’s “a date which will live in infamy” speech.
lp0V TIL: Erin Pizzey started one of the first women’s shelters in Canada and the US. Pizzey received death threats and boycotts because of her claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are equally capable of violence as men. Pizzey said that the threats were from militant feminists
O0B6 TIL a teenage model in the 1920s was the inspiration behind 15 of some of the most iconic statues in NYC. Her career destroyed in 1922 by a murder mystery and scandal,she attempted suicide, was admitted to a mental institution where she spent 65 yrs and died in obscurity at the age of 105.
GYJAE TIL that wildly successful country singer Marty Robins of “El Paso” fame also had a moderately successful 13 year side-career as a self funded NASCAR driver
R519 TIL in Japan, it is so common for people to die alone undiscovered for long periods, that they have a term for it, “Kodokushi”. “Their bodies lie in places undiscovered for long periods of time, and because of this, thick, dark stains shaped like a human body are left where their bodies once lay.”