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TIL The inventor of frontal lobotomy won a Nobel Prize.
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TIL Apples, potatoes, and other produce can be and are often stored for up to a year before they are shipped to stores.
ppON
TIL Anthony Stockelman molested and murdered a 10-year-old girl named “Katie” in 2005. When he was sent to prison, a relative of Katie’s was reportedly also there and got to Stockelman in the middle of the night and tattooed “Katie’s Revenge” on his forehead.
YpP4d
TIL before the Mayflower, Squanto was kidnapped, sold into slavery in Spain, and escaped back to North America, only to find his entire tribe wiped out from disease. The site he later helped the Pilgrams settle at was the summer village of his tribe, Plymoth Rock.
ElKP
TIL A man who survived 5 concentration camps convinced Hasbro to start producing Transformers, also holds over 100 other patents, the best-known of which gave him the exclusive right in the United States to detect and display hole cards in poker games.
4boJ
TIL: Scientists have discovered how to change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells