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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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8DwL TIL that a Johns Hopkins professor procured 34 gallons of whiskey during prohibition for his research. He observed that subjects got better at throwing darts as they got drunker.
D1ZpJ TIL socialist Victor Berger was indicted/convicted under the Espionage Act. Despite this he was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate and returned to Congress in 1918. The House disqualified him; Berger ran in a special election and won again (eventually the Supreme Court overturned his conviction)
yQ8NX TIL that in 2012, a missing woman was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
kEj4 TIL Atari didn’t allow designers to receive credit on their games, and so Warren Robinett placed a secret object in the game which allowed the players to see a hidden screen displaying “Created by Warren Robinett”, one of the earliest Easter eggs to be created
Y7J6r TIL on November 23, 1963, former Vice President Richard Nixon wrote a condolence letter to Jackie Kennedy. On January 21, 1964, Mrs. Kennedy sent a thank you note to Nixon, encouraging him to run for the presidency again, as he had lost to Kennedy in 1960.