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TIL In 1963,a CIA-funded psychiatrist, Dr. Ewen Cameron managed to completely wipe a woman’s memory by using electroshocks and hallucinogens over a 86 day period..

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VZoZ TIL during WW2 a Soviet Airforce lieutenant who intentionally did not open his parachute survived a fall from the plane of approximately 7,000 meters (23,000 feet)
loe5G TIL that there is a remote, Alpine village in Austria with a population of just over 1,000 which has its own underground/metro line. It’s just 1.3 km long, has 4 stations and connects a parking lot with some ski lifts located at the opposite ends of the village.
neajW TIL of Charlotte Reid, the first woman to wear pants to Congress (1969). Women were forbidden to wear pants onto the floor until 1993
MeLL7 TIL that Iridium is so rare on Earth that annual worldwide production is only three tonnes
7Ejx TIL the longest prison sentence ever given was 384,912 years long for failing to deliver mail.