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TIL A Device Exists That Can Make People Hear Voices In Their Head That Nobody Else Can Hear.

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Z6kG TIL the US Navy built a replica ship in the middle of New York City during World War One to boost recruitment. It was staffed by a full crew who stood guard, slept on board and manned wooden guns. It helped enlist 25,000 men.
4XGbw TIL if you don't enjoy music you may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population.
0wxxR TIL that infamous film director Ed Wood has served in the USMC during WW2. He had claimed that that he feared being wounded in battle more than he feared being killed, mainly because he was afraid a combat medic would discover his secret due to wearing a a bra and panties under his uniform.
R0Rl TIL that the death-sentanced murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan donated his body to science in 1994, and was then sliced horizontally into 1mm pieces for the purpose of creating a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body.
P1nAL Today I learned that cancers in areas like the brain and genitals can be treated using nuclear reactions.