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TIL Neolithic Age humans performed successful brain surgery.

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1a8AX TIL Congress can write laws that apply to only a particular person or entity. While a majority of laws passed by Congress apply to all people Congress has authority over, a small number of “Private Laws” are passed by Congress every few years, usually to grant specific relief actions.
epK5J TIL: The 6 Mitford sisters were a famous aristocratic family heavily involved in wildly different political scenes in the 1900s. Unity was a close friend of Hitler and visited him often, Diana married the leader of British Union of Fascists, Jessica joined the American Communist Party, etc.
lv77 TIL Charles Manson took over 150 hours of Scientology courses, rejected it as too crazy, and then went on to murder a whole bunch of people.
grBy9 TIL the US Government spends nearly $20,000 per citizen every year
e0VK5 TIL In a 1958 documentary, Disney faked mass suicide of lemmings by throwing some lemmings bought from Inuit children off of a cliff into the ocean