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TIL Belgium committed Genocide in Congo in a 52-year colonial rule, killing 10-15 million Congolese

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loXmr TIL amazing footage of a patient undergoing open heart surgery with acupuncture as pain relief, fails to show that the patient also had 3 very powerful sedatives (midazolam, droperidol, fentanyl) and lots of local anaesthetic injected into the chest.
grxeb TIL: About the West European tradition of ‘Telling the bees’
ZyGo TIL that there’s a Death Metal band with a parrot as their front"man". They’re called “Hatebeak”.
5VYg8 TIL that there existed a Hitler-themed restaurant near Mumbai in 2006
R7XGQ TIL that shortly after his 101st birthday, Albert Hoffman, the swiss chemist known for discovering LSD, wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking for his assistance in a study about the therapeutic uses of LSD. Jobs once famously said that taking LSD was one of the 2 or 3 most important things he'd done.