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TIL of Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, whose mental capacity was reduced to that of a two year old child and became incontinent after a lobotomy was performed on her without her mother’s permission

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JYeG8 TIL that the photo of Hitler with a gunshot to his forehead is of his double, Gustav Weler. His body was burned outside his bunker along with his wife Eva Braun right after their suicide, and Soviets took the remains for autopsy after exhuming them.
1a4gO TIL of Valerie Browning - a woman who with her husband Ishmael has been serving the people of Afar, Ethiopia (one of the hottest places on earth) since 1973. She grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She has been providing medicine, food and education to the people living there.
EgJZd TIL that bones of fallen Waterloo battle' soldiers (and horses) may have been used to whiten brown sugar into refined white sugar for decades
JY9G1 TIL people were still using the phrase 'abracadabra' in the late 1600s to try to ward off the plague in London
788rX TIL most of the Roman Gladiators were vegetarians