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TIL Jonathan Lee Riches who after hearing that Guinness World Records was going to name him the world's "most litigous person," responded by suing them.

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l7YJG TIL JFK's sister, Rosemary, was subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy when she was 23 years of age by request of her father. It left her incapacitated and unable to speak intelligibly. The Kennedy family did not explain her absence until 1961, where they said it was on account of "mental retardation".
v9br TIL To put an end to the 2002 Nord-Ost siege in Moscow Russian officials decided to use a classified gas to put everyone inside asleep but the gas killed over 100 of the hostages while Russian officials would not tell doctors what was used in the gas.
M8xW TIL Finland and Sweden are the only countries in the world that have earned a medal at every Olympic game since 1908.
16MZ8 TIL "emotional labor" is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job, including regulating their personas during interactions, suppression of expressions of felt emotions and expression of emotions that aren't actually felt
E1VWo TIL that the foul smelling odor of feces is due to high concentrations of the compound skatole (3-methylindole). The same compound in low concentrations has a flowery smell and is found in several flowers and essential oils, including those of orange blossoms and jasmine.