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TIL that walruses are capable of whisteling

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5Y75R TIL Operation Freakout was a Church of Scientology covert plan intended to have the author Paulette Cooper imprisoned or committed to a psychiatric hospital, as revenge for her highly critical book, The Scandal of Scientology.
QJZKe TIL, one of the main attractions at Madame Tussaud's original museum were death masks of victims of the French Revolution.
eNDL TIL: a neuroscientist studying the brains of psychopathic killers scanned his own brain as a control, only to discover that he himself was a psychopath. When he told friends and family, the universal response was, “That explains a lot.”
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