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TIL USSR banned lobotomies in 1950. Doctors there: "contrary to the principles of humanity" and "'through lobotomy' an insane person is changed into an idiot". Used in US until 1977.

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grmkX TIL a bear was the first living being to survive a supersonic ejection
0DlA TIL there is no physical description of Jesus in the Bible.
D1bbJ TIL that word boondock come from Tagalog bundok ‘mountain.’ American soldiers stationed in the Philippines adopted the word in the early 1900s, shifting the meaning to refer to "an isolated or wild region."
p8VDN TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity
N7rK8 TIL Canada's nuclear reactors (CANDU) are designed to use decommissioned nuclear weapons as fuel and can be refueled while running at full power. They're considered among the safest and the most cost effective reactors in the world.