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TIL that starting in June 1965, Angus Barbieri fasted for 382 days. He lived on tea, coffee, soda water and vitamins, living at home Scotland, and frequently visiting a hospital for medical evaluation. He lost 276 pounds (125 kg), reached his 180 pound goal weight, and started eating again.

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Oo9n1 TIL Parents who give their children bleach enemas to cure autism have shared photos of "rope worms" expelled from their children, claiming they are parasites killed by the concoction. They are actually intestinal lining.
lGpN TIL that the company that created Zyklon B, the gas that was used to kill millions of Jews in the Holocaust, still exists as a pest control company.
W7VZ9 TIL that every year around 1 million people commit suicide with attempted suicides being about 20 times more common.
kOAGg TIL about the "Cat Telephone". In 1929, Princeton researchers opened a cat's skull and connected the auditory nerve to a telephone. When one researcher spoke in the cat’s ear, the other could hear it through the receiver 50 feet away. The experiment ultimately became the basis for cochlear implants.
yVy1w TIL the World Record for longest name is held by a man whose name contained 746 letters and 27 words. Each of his 26 surnames started with a different letter, in alphabetical order. His last name told the story of a Wolf-Slayer whose ancestors came here on a tungsten spaceship 1.2 million years ago.