› added 6 years ago

204

TIL in 1983 a brain wound cured a 19 year old man of OCD and he became a straight A student and retained the same IQ.

Read more nytimes.com

via reddit.com

5VQok TIL Mayonnaise is named after (and was likely invented in) Mahón, Spain
v16EK TIL There is a community called the "Dozenalists" that believe a base-12 counting system, instead of our current base-10 (decimal) system, is a more efficient way of conceptualizing and understanding mathematics.
R7Vm9 TIL in the Ottoman Empire, they would lock away spare male heirs in a part of the Imperial palace called the “Kafes” (“the cage”), and put them under lifelong confinement, unless they succeeded the throne. This was to avoid a war of succession, and ensure the survival of the royal dynasty.
QJyML TIL 95% of all avocados on sale today are descended from one tree grown by a Milwaukee postman in 1926.
Lk1Nv TIL the rarest blood type on Earth is RHnull with only 43 people reported on Earth with that blood type.