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TIL some architects refuse to design spaces deemed inhumane by their nature, including solitary confinement cells and execution chambers. The counterargument: if architects don’t do it, such spaces will still be built, just by non-professionals who may make them even worse.

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R99a TIL when Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.
4EgX TIL in 2009 ChumbaWamba recorded an EP to be released in the event of Margaret Thatcher’s death.
R56j TIL that someone had a baby three months premature– the baby was declared stillborn. . The mother, eager to at least see the baby 12 hours after the operation– found the baby alive. . nailed in a coffin, almost frozen inside the morgue.
xVKwo TIL that giant tarantulas sometimes keep tiny frogs as "pets". They protect the frog safe from predators, while the frog eats tiny insects (ants, etc.) that could harm its eggs.
790L TIL Stockholm, Sweden tested a “Speed Camera Lottery” where speed limit-abiding drivers were automatically entered into a drawing to win a prize pool funded out of fines paid by speeders.