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TIL Quebec's provincial government intentionally misclassified 20,000 children as mentally ill and confined them to psychiatric institutions in order to misappropriate federal subsidies for the benefit of the Catholic Church

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bvxa TIL that the longest movie ever, called The Cure for Insomnia was 87 hours of “artist L. D. Groban reading his 4,080-page poem "A Cure for Insomnia” over the course of three and a half days, spliced with occasional clips from heavy metal and pornographic videos.“
ADp8B TIL that uncooked spaghetti always break into more than two parts, a curious fact that already baffled Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. The riddle was only solved last year by scientists who managed to make spaghetti snap into only two parts with a trick.
4r0b TIL the “guilty” face that dogs make aren’t really that of guilt, rather they are facial expressions of anticipating punishment. It is believed dogs don’t have enough self awareness, therefore, cannot feel guilty of something.
EL67 TIL Enzo Ferrari sold his house to buy his 1st race car.
vNXj TIL the heaviest human being ever recorded weighed 1400 lb. At one point, he also lost approximately 924 lb, the largest human weight loss ever documented.