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TIL the guy who created the “Category 1-5” hurricane scale was named Robert Homer Simpson

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a8vAo TIL the US started a Crazy Horse monument to rival Mount Rushmore in 1948. While the design features the Chief riding and pointing toward the Black Hills only the face has been completed.
KO16J TIL that Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), still utilized today, allows for improvements in depression in 70-90% of the patients treated with it, much higher than that of psychopharmacology.
4OGa TIL that in 1808, a gentleman’s duel took place at 2,000 ft. in hot air balloons. Each man attempted to destroy the others balloon.
DNXP TIL it has been scientifically proven that the less you know, the more you think you know
mDPo TIL that in the 1890’s Emperor Menelek of Ethiopia was impressed by the new method of execution in the USA, the electric chair. He ordered three to be sent to his palace only to learn he needed electricity to use them. He gave two away and used the last chair as a throne.