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TIL that Eva Peron, wife of Argentinian dictator Juan Peron, had a prefrontal lobotomy done on her without her consent in the last months of her life, as she was dying of metastatic cancer.

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KO9JE Today I Learned: Gargoyles are fancy rain gutters. In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.
yGVJ TIL A man outsourced his entire job to China while sitting at his desk browsing reddit
4XQ1b TIL the reason truck drivers always twist their tie down straps. It prevents wind induced oscillation which causes fraying of the straps and can quickly damage the cargo being tied down.
NXwVM TIL that the character 'Sheen Estevez' from Jimmy Neutron was initially intended to be of Japanese descent.
yypM TIL that the German word for “jack of all trades” (Eierlegende-wollmilchsau) literally means egg-laying-wool-milk-pig thereby describing the perfect animal that provides wool, milk and, finally, bacon.