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TIL: Edison shocked elephants with AC to disprove Tesla, trying to prove that DC is safer

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9YeLB TIL of Candance Newmaker, a child who was killed during a 70-minute attachment therapy session purported to treat reactive attachment disorder. The treatment, during which Candace was suffocated, included a rebirthing script which led to her suffocation.
XNBP TIL of Robert Clary who survived two Nazi concentration camps ( Ottmuth and Buchenwald ) and tattooed with the identification “A5714” on his left forearm. We know him as Corporal Louis LeBeau, the sparky French resistence fighter inside a Nazi prison camp on “Hogans Heros”. He is now 91 years old.
woyMW TIL: Apple had a zero click exploit that was undetected for 4 years and largely not reported in any mainstream media source
p8kmG TIL there's a hobby called magnet fishing where people use rare earth magnets attached to ropes and throw them into rivers and other bodies of water to pull up metal objects and they often find weapons
9axB TIL of Forgetmenot whose superpower is that everyone forgets about him even machines. he also been one of the original members of the X-Men its just that they forget about him