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TIL there was a quite a few cases of heavily insured airplane passengers blowing themselves up in the 50s/60s.

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KYwr6 TIL that former president JFK's sister was left physically and mentally incapacitated for life after a lobotomy
vPkK TIL the “world’s worst nuclear disaster” was the result of two individuals stealing a radiotherapy source - and using it’s core as jewelry.
JYXe1 TIL The concept of setting the clocks ahead in the spring in order to make better use of natural daylight was first introduced by US inventor Benjamin Franklin in 1784.
0wkWR TIL of Kevin Carter. A member of the Bang-Bang Club, photographers who chronicled apartheid-­era South Africa. He took the “starving child and vulture” pic. He won the Pulitzer for the pic and soon after took his life, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger & pain.”
yQA48 TIL having a good cry really is good for you. The tears you shed when you cry contain stress hormones, and crying itself may actually stimulate the production of endorphins—the body's natural painkiller—as well as feel-good hormones such as oxytocin.