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TIL A man who suffered from severe OCD cured himself whith a bullet through the front of his brain while attempting suicide.

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GAv8G TIL sci fi author Jack Williamson coined the terms terraforming (1942), psionics (1952), and was one of the first people to use the term genetic engineering.
dKJB TIL that if you invested $1000 with Warren Buffet in 1966, you would have $6.4 Billion
8eGWV TIL that the BMI cutoff to be considered obese is lower for Asian-Pacific populations (≥25 kg/m^2) vs the WHO standard (≥30)
n7XW TIL Isaac Newton was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1689 and served for exactly one year. During that time, he said one and only one sentence during the lengthy proceedings: he asked a nearby usher to close an open, drafty window.
d5J7 TIL there is a quiet zone located in Virginia and West Virginia, nearly 13,000 square miles in size, where radio transmissions are strongly restricted by law, to the point of having a patrol that goes around and forces you to shut off anything that emits radio waves.