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TIL Plato real name was probably Aristocles. Plato was a nickname given to him by his wrestling coach with Plato meaning "broad"

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oebA TIL In 1988, a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student a few years later.
v1xQx TIL that meth was used as an antidepressant from the 1930s to the 1950s. A man named Gordon Alles patented the drug after he was injected with it and found that he became talkative and gained "a sense of well-being".
awWRM TIL that E. G. Daily who voiced Tommy Pickles in Rugrats & Buttercup in The Powerpuff Girls, is also a singer. In 1986, she released her debut single "Say It, Say It". The single went to number one on the U.S. Dance Club Play chart for one week
R9w9 TIL A man named Charles Holden picked up a hitchhiker, got into a fight with him and ditched him ½ mile away from his house. Later this hitchhiker walked up to a house and killed an elderly woman. This woman was Charles’ mother. The hitchhiker didn’t know they were related.
0wE0A TIL Sindberg is virtually unknown in his home country of Denmark but considered a folk hero in China where he is estimated to have saved 20.000 during the Nanjing massacre. Armed only with the Danish flag he held off the Japanese from entering the makeshift shelter he set up in a cement factory.