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TIL of "Lost Dakota"- a small portion of the Dakota Territory that was not given to any state in the late 19th century and was subsequently forgotten for five years. It was later annexed by Montana and is uninhabited to this day, although it is reportedly "infested with grizzly bears".

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wL8jJ TIL: One quarter of the world's population is thought to be infected with Tuberculosis.
OZj7 TIL the CIA once dosed one of their biological warfare scientists drink with LSD. The scientist decided he wanted to quit germ warfare and dedicate his life to something else. Nine days later he was thrown out of the 10th story of a hotel.
KYAN4 TIL In the 1980s, DeCasper studied whether fetuses could hear mothers’ reading. In several months, infants were tested to choose recordings with different stories to listen to. Surprisingly, but most of children chose to listen to the stories that their mothers had read to them prenatally
a8x5y Today I learned that the State University of Arizona conducted a study based on the Ministry of Silly Walks Monty Python sketch, and found that "Had an initiative to promote inefficient movement been adopted in the early 1970s, we might now be living among a healthier society"
drDr TIL that the JFK assassination conspiracy theory has been described by subsequent Congress investigations as “highly probable”