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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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OoGae TIL that pharmaceutical company Aventis stopped production of a cure for sleeping sickness, a lifesaving drug for millions of Africans, between 1995-2001 because it wasn’t making enough profit. Instead the product was marketed in the West as women’s facial hair removal cream.
A4dw TIL that when the CIA opened a Twitter account, their first tweet was “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.”
YYYA TIL A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface.
l4nV TIL Dale Irby a PE teacher in Dallas (Texas, USA) who wore the exact same polyester shirt and knit sweater vest for the past 40 years of yearbook photos.
QJnva TIL France maintains the largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, largely from many tiny overseas territories. It covers approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world, while the land area of the French Republic is only 0.45% of the total land area of the Earth.