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l7JoB TIL Helen duncan, a Scottish medium, in 1944 was the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims about the sinking of HMS Barham.
kJ04B TIL in 1949, António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for the psychosurgery procedure leucotomy, ​better known today as the infamous lobotomy.
jn4n TIL lab researchers have been able to manipulate specific memories using beams of laser light, creating, deleting, and altering emotional content: positive memories have been rendered negative and vice-versa.
4XNJ5 TIL that science has a need for more postmortem brains to study. Being an organ donor does not include the brain, so you must sign up separately in order to donate your brain for research.
yVJBw TIL Paul Dirac was the youngest-ever theoretician to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at thirty. Dirac published an equation in 1928 that physicists all over the world regarded as wondrous as it described behavior of electrons while accounting for spin