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TIL that in 1972 a scientist created a ‘Rat Utopia’ as a social experiment to study population density, and within two years the population dived Into a irreversible decline unto extinction.

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kOR07 TIL There is a beach in France where Garfield telephones have been washing ashore for over 30 years
RBla TIL of John Rabe, a Nazi party member who is credited for saving 250,000 Chinese civilians during the Nanking Safety Zone.
711M TIL: Europe banned ISPs from charging for faster network access in April - in Slovenia and Holland it is already national law.
X8xR TIL Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA released nearly 12 million documents. One set of documents revealed research of possibility that “insane” people may be experiencing multiple “levels of reality” and their brains can’t process this information, leading to mental instability [PDF]
Brkxd TIL we only know about MKUltra because while the CIA was trying to destroy all the files on it due to paranoia around Watergate, some of them were sent to the wrong office and not destroyed