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TIL that a diary belonging to royal physician Lord Dawson of Penn was unearthed in 1986 and revealed that he secretly and deliberately euthanized George V.

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78VRL TIL about project Cybersyn, an attempt to implement a socialist economy aided by real-time computer processing and pre-internet telecommunication-based coordination in 1970s Chile
yVZrw TIL that readiness potentials are a kind electroencephalogram signal that appears before the intention to perform actions, so they were thought to predict awareness of voluntary movement. But this recent study have found them also before the partecipants decided not to move.
dM17 TIL that despite a rate of gun ownership among the highest, Switzerland has one of the lowest murder rates in the world.
0wj0v TIL when adobe stopped supporting flash content from running it also stopped a Chinese railroad from operating for almost a day. The only solution was to install a pirated version of Flash that was still operational.
M7joa TIL that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930's, meant to boost US manufacturing and farming, amplied the Great Depression's impact by collapsing global trade.