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TIL there is 1 school remaining in the U.S. that employs shock therapy treatment on students. The FDA attempted to ban the use of their in-house built electro-shock devices which was overturned by the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2021.

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ERK0 TIL the actor who played young Forrest Gump ended up enlisting in the Army and going to combat just like his character
neJZW TIL that a Danish man saved over 6000 chinese people from the japanese army during the Nanking Massacre.
7mjL TIL 99.7% of Japanese court cases result in conviction
4VeN TIL one of the last SS units to hold out defending Hitler’s bunker in Berlin was comprised entirely of Frenchmen
LkYKV TIL over Newgrange, a prehistoric tomb in Ireland. It is pitch dark in the tomb the whole year, except for 15 min around Dec 21, when sunlight illuminates the niche in the front.