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TIL the S in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything
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TIL Nebraska passed a "Safe Haven Law" to ostensibly allow infants to be abandoned at certain locations without abandonment charges. However, it had no age cap, so people would abandon teenagers and older kids.
DQ0dp
TIL one of the few people actually killed by an Australian Cassowary was an American man who thought it was a good idea to keep one as a pet.
GYBpE
TIL researchers discovered that applying a sonogram to a person's skull and stimulating specific brain regions can alter their mood. One researcher described applying it to his own head and later feeling like he had a martini. They hope to develop a sonogram-based device to treat mood disorders.
POgL
TIL in the 1930s, African Americans weren’t allowed to compete in sanctioned bowling tournaments, so they formed their own all-black bowling league. They called it the NBA.
8aJoX
TIL of Otto Skorzeny, an SS commando who among other feats rescued Mussolini from a mountaintop prison, spread chaos undercover in American uniform and was later recruited by the Mossad