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TIL Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was under the supervision of a manipulative psychologist, Eugene Landy, who controlled every aspect of his life for 9 years during the ‘80s and early ‘90s. Landy exerted his power over Wilson in many different ways, including making him eat spaghetti off the floor.

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l7vxr TIL about the Cuban Rafter crisis resulting in 35k fleeing to u.s. by makeshift rafts. Resulted in 16k deaths (1994)
1ylD TIL in Japan’s Shima Marineland aquarium, a goldfish was thrown into an exhibition tank to be live-bait for a larger fish. The goldfish escaped through a tiny gap that led to a filtration tank, where it lived alone in the dark for 7 years, feeding off food scraps that made its way into the tank.
eyGJ TIL that when Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet during its 1910 approach, there was public fear that a gas discovered in the tail, cyanogen, would destroy all life on the planet, leading to people buying gas masks and “Anti-Comet Pills.”
epNAk TIL the during The Battle of the Bulge, German troops posing as American soldiers were caught because their identification cards were spelled correctly.
VEpD TIL that a Pakistani soldier and a Malaysian soldier also died (along with the 18 Americans) trying to rescue the crashed American helicopter crews in Mogadishu during “Black Hawk Down”.