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TIL babies were not anesthetized during surgery until the early eighties

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Y7V8G Today I learned that cattle mutilations have been happening in North America since at least the 1960s, have happened all across Canada and the US, and are still happening today. Authorities have yet to discover who, or what, is the cause.
6EYMJ TIL about Baijiu the most consumed distilled liquor in the world. This traditional Chinese liquor is said to be the most consumed spirit in the world, but only a small amount is found outside the country’s borders.
4vn5 TIL one of Brigham Young’s 55 wives bravely divorced him and wrote the best seller “Wife No. 19,” an autobiography lambasting Mormonism and polygamy.
p8ma8 TIL that Electroshock Therapy as demonised by One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is actually a valid, effective and humane treatment for a variety of brain conditions and still used to this day
JYRLk TIL Playboy featured a transgender model in 1991