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TIL The Nobel Prize committee has never rescinded the prize given to Egas Moniz for the invention of lobotomies

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RpKl TIL the “slow puncture”, a form of punishment in South African prisons among inmates, consisting in the rape by a person with AIDS.
78Ggx TIL that 152 black cats auditioned to be in a film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Black Cat"
0LpL TIL: Flowers didn’t exist until dinosaurs and mammals were already roaming the earth.
LQ5BV TIL of Charles Blondin, the world famous tightrope walker that crossed the Niagara Gorge on a 3.25 inch rope while performing various tasks including pushing a wheelbarrow, carrying a man on his back, and making an omelette.
MebL0 TIL that Yakov Kreizer was the first Soviet general awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title during World War II