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TIL President Kennedy’s sister was forced to undergo a lobotomy, while conscious under the effect of mild tranquilizers, in an attempt to cure her “rebellious” behavior.

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oRAe7 TIL the well-known spinning top with the spherical bottom, from many people's childhoods and from many a cheap plastic toy collection, is called a "Tippe Top".
VMgBB TIL Ann Wilson of Heart wrote the song Barracuda after her recording company created a rumor that her sister and her were having an incestuous relationship for publicity. Following a concert, a fan asked how her “lover” was. Enraged, she went directly to her hotel room and began writing the lyrics.
x4Z7 TIL the first man made aircraft to successfully land on another planet and send back data was the Soviet Venera 7 in 1970. After landing on Venus, the craft sent back only 23 minutes of weak data, presumably because it landed on its side.
vapB TIL there is a poem in Mandarin Chinese that, when spoken, sounds like the same word being repeated 92 times. It is actually a descriptive story of a man eating stone lions.
wopvW TIL of Vichy collaborator Maurice Papon, who deported 1600 Jews to Drancy camp in WW2. He also tortured Algerian insurgents and killed up to 300 protesters in Paris in 1961, disappeared a Moroccan Marxist, and was granted the Legion of Honour by Charles de Gaulle. He was not convicted until 1998.