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TIL Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of JFK, brought lobotomized Rosemary to home. She also advocated intellectual dissability right, disclosed Rosmary's struggle, and founded Special Olympics

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yVWBe TIL in 2022, Kenan Thompson appeared in his 1,500th "Saturday Night Live" sketch
NXj1P TIL a 2014 study found that males represented 88.7% of all Darwin Award winners selected between 1995-2014. "Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival."
KKe9 TIL that the estimated life expectancy for HIV Positive people in the US and Canada is actually higher than the average population.
GYaR4 TIL: Robert P. Hansen was a real life American-Russian spy that sold thousands of documents to the Soviet/Russian government between the years of 1979-2001. He was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms at ADX Florence Supermax Prison.
e0mKJ TIL in the movie "Home Alone" the producers thought it would be too mean to use a real girl for the pic of Buzz’s unattractive girlfriend so they used the art director’s son