› added 11 years ago

68

TIL: That the CIA captured random American citizens, tortured them, tested on them, and more, all illegally.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

X0p78 TIL Brigham Young's 35th Child Was a Drag Queen
N7DkP TIL [in 1926] Overcome with grief after the death of his wife, famed sharp shooter Annie Oakley, Francis Butler refused to eat and died of starvation 18 days later at the age of 78.
GPZ7 TIL That there used to be pills that contained tapeworms, and when you lost the amount of weight you wanted to lose, you would take a second pill that killed the tapeworm.
1aD5O TIL real human skulls are traded on Instagram by a small but active underground collectors’ market. The skulls are decorated and sold by macabre enthusiasts. Some sell for tens of thousands of dollars.
b9e7 TIL that many people have experienced “cryptomnesia”, which is what happens when you think you’ve come up with something original, such as an idea or a joke, but it was actually something you’d seen before and forgotten about.