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TIL that during the Vietnam war 30,000 American draft dodgers fled to Canada, the same number as Canadians that volunteered to fight

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awwO9 TIL that Sigmund Freud once described a victim of his friend's medical malpractice as having "wish-bleedings, caused by her hysterical longing for the affection of others." His friend Wilhelm Fliess had cut out the inner part of her nose, causing her death some years later.
b6Qp TIL that lightning rods are not supposed to attract lightning strikes but rather discharge a storms electrical potential before it builds into a sudden strike.
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