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TIL Betty Crocker was never real

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grED4 TIL During the 19th century, people would attend clinics where they could receive electric shock treatments using devices like the "Electro-Conductive Bath." The idea was that these shocks could apparently cure everything from insomnia to depression.
RPoa TIL there’s an experimental township in India founded in 1968 called Auroville. Where citizens are from all over the world and there’s no money or religion.
nemxW TIL the rights to Back to the Future are entirely owned by the director, Robert Zemeckis, who has pledged for there to never, ever be a remake in his lifetime
mxWGP TIL that Dune (by Frank Herbert) is actually a warning AGAINST the Hero's Journey: "The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes."
neZJ9 TIL about the ‘Stoned Ape’ theory the idea that ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms was the "evolutionary catalyst" from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang.