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TIL that Electroshock Therapy as demonised by One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is actually a valid, effective and humane treatment for a variety of brain conditions and still used to this day

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WGW8 TIL 10,000 Iowan farmers built 380 miles of road (entire width of the state) in one hour on a Saturday morning in 1910
rRwyy TIL - When Icelandic people are born they do not take the same last name of their parents. Instead they take their fathers first name and add "son" (son) if you are a boy, or "dottir" (daughter) if you are a girl, to create their last name.
0wZE1 TIL Impalement (Execution by a slowly sliding down a pole inserted through the rectum or vagina over the course of days) was used as recently as the Armenian Genocide (~1915) by The Young Turks
JJnB TIL Raisa Gorbachev once told a British minister there were more than 300 ways to cook potatoes in the USSR. When he had doubts, she sent him a cookbook and a note: “My apologies for being somewhat inaccurate: in fact, there are five hundred, rather than three hundred, recipes to cook potatoes.”
4O5w TIL that the world record for maximum time aloft (MTA) with a boomerang is 6.5 minutes.