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TIL that King Cobra is not a Cobra.

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rROpx TIL Walter Jackson Freeman II, creator of the "icepick" lobotomy, performed as many as 4,000 surgeries in 23 states despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. Up to 40% of Freeman's patients were gay individuals subjected to a lobotomy in order to change their homosexual orientation.
awxpo TIL during the San Francisco plague of 1900-1904, the governor of California denied the existence of the place for two years for business reasons, to protect the reputations of San Francisco and to prevent the loss of revenue due to quarantine, allowing the disease to spread unchecked.
pRrb TIL a US Navy battleship was shut down for 3 hours because its computer divided by zero, causing the whole network to crash.
l7WPr TIL The Beach Boys performed a song written by Charles Manson on the Mike Douglas Show in 1969
4X1do TIL: Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul Dirac used to speak so less that his colleagues jokingly created a unit of silence in his honour. One 'Dirac' was fewest words it was possible to utter while in company.