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TIL a depressed patient attempted suicide by gunshot to the head, destroying the part of the brain that may cause depression. Most of her depressive symptoms went away.

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xLjD TIL Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent in 1945. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.
kOXg4 TIL that "Cult Toons", those crazy 'remixes' of Hanna-Barbera cartoons with blaxploitation and martial arts movies which were on Cartoon Network at the end of the 90s, were produced in the UK.
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