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TIL Toto's single of 'Africa' went platinum in 2017 and 4x platinum as of October this year.

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xOlg TIL that South Carolina was not flying the confederate flag for the first half of the 20th century, and only reintroduced it in the 1960s in response to being forced to integrate their schools.
yQ7Pa TIL of Freud's patient diagnosed with hysteria based on menstrual symptoms. A surgeon friend claimed he could cure it with nose surgery. Surgery botched, left her hemorrhaging and disfigured. Freud claimed her hemorrhage is "wish-bleeding" caused by a hysterical longing for the affection of others.
1aA8P TIL that boxing promoter Don King served prison time for stomping one of his employees to death.
95nB TIL that the CHEKA, during the Red Terror, tortured their victims by boiling their hands until the skin could be pulled off like a glove