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TIL that Cards Against Humanity bought an island and named it Hawaii 2

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GYNdj TIL Rosemary Kennedy was developmentally disabled and lashed out regularly. She was given a lobotomy and asked to sing 'God Bless America'. They continued cutting away deeper into her brain until her singing became incoherent, then stopped.
wLBLP TIL Carole King has written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005
oZNK TIL there is poop on the moon
4mW5 TIL A Yale student snuck a card for the fictional book, the Necronomicon, into the university library’s card catalog.
7Ler TIL that until 1987 heart surgery (and other surgeries) would be performed on babies with no anaesthesia, as it was commonly thought that babies could not feel pain.