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TIL in Turkmenistan every year, teachers and doctors are forced to leave their jobs to go pick cotton for harvest on behalf of the government. This year there was an exception and they were allowed exemption.

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5J0p TIL António Moniz, the surgeon who developed the frontal lobotomy procedure to make people calm and docile, was shot by one of his lobotomized patients.
kOG9W TIL one of the reasons American bullfrogs are so dangerous as invasive species is cannibalism. Adult bullfrogs can subsist entirely off tadpoles and younger frogs (which eat algae and insects), and that reliable food source lets adult populations grow beyond what's normally possible in an ecosystem
Ao14 TIL that one major reason that Hollywood emerged as the center of filmmaking is that early on, most moviemaking patents were held by Thomas Edison’s company in New Jersey, and filmmakers were sued to stop their productions. To escape this, they began moving out west, where enforcement was difficult.
R7Dy6 TIL there's an R-rated director's cut of Galaxy Quest with raunchy language and sex scenes.
waV6 TIL that J. Edgar Hoover falsely claimed that a woman who “couldn’t plan breakfast” had been criminal mastermind and gang leader, after she was killed in a shootout between her son and the FBI. Hoover’s version of her inspired Ma Beagle in DuckTales, and Ma Fratelli in The Goonies.